# The Water Resources (Succession to Licences) Regulations 1969, Paragraph 4


(1) The application shall be accompanied by evidence for the purpose of satisfying the river authority with respect to such of the following matters as are contained in the application, or shall include a statement as to the nature of any evidence which the applicant can produce for that purpose if the authority shall so require:—
(a) that the claim to have become the occupier of a part, or the whole, of the original land, and (in so far as material) to have done so at the time specified, is well founded;
(b) that the claim to be entitled to make the application in accordance with the provisions of section 27 of the Act (as modified by regulation 8) is well founded;
(c) in the case of a proposal that the new licence should authorise a quantity of water determined in accordance with regulation 7(2)(b)(ii), that the quantity proposed is the quantity which ought to be so determined;
(d) in the case of a request that, in accordance with regulation 7(3), there should be added to any quantity of water determined in accordance with regulation 7(2) a quantity which the original holder would have abstracted at a point of abstraction which has not become available to the applicant, that the circumstances are such as to enable the river authority to be satisfied with respect to the relevant matters specified in regulation 7(3).
(2) The application shall be accompanied by such information as the applicant is able to provide with respect to the following matters:—
(a) whether the holder (if any) of the original licence has applied, or is prepared to apply, for the grant of a new licence, or for the revocation or variation of the original licence, as mentioned in regulation 5(3);
(b) whether there is, or is likely to be, any related application for a new licence, made by another successor by reference to the same original licence, which might appropriately be considered together with the applicant's application.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/976/schedule/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-succession-to-licences-regulations-1969/schedule/paragraph-4
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