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Regulation 2 Interpretation

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(1)

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

  • “the Act” means the Water Resources Act 1963;

  • “the Minister” means the Minister of Housing and Local Government or the Secretary of State, according to circumstances, as section 1 of the Act provides;

  • “river authority” includes, in addition to a river authority established under the Act, any other body having river authority functions under Part IV of the Act in any area, and references (however expressed) to the area of a river authority shall be construed accordingly ; and “the river authority” , in relation to any matter, means the river authority, or other body having Part IV functions as aforesaid, for the area in which that matter arises;

  • “successor” means a person who becomes the occupier of any land formerly occupied by the holder of a licence under the Act to abstract water for use on specified land consisting of, or comprising, the land in question;

and, in relation to any successor and to his entitlement under the regulations,—

  • “the original holder” means the last preceding occupier of the land in question, who, immediately before he ceased to be the occupier, held a licence under the Act to abstract water for use on that land, with or without other land;

  • “the original licence” means the original holder's licence as it has effect for the purposes of the successor's entitlement at the time when he becomes the occupier of the land in question, or, if the relevant provisions of that licence are then contained in a new licence which has been substituted therefor in pursuance of the regulations, means that substituted licence;

  • “the original land” means all the land of which the original holder was the occupier immediately before the relevant event, in so far as it was, or formed part of, the land then specified in the original licence as the land on which water abstracted in pursuance of that licence was to be used;

  • “the relevant event” means the death of the original holder, or the other act or event by reason of which the original holder ceased to be the occupier of land consisting of, or comprising, the land of which the successor has become the occupier.

(2)

A reference in these regulations to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment and as including a reference to it as applied by or under any other enactment.

(3)

The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.