Article 6 General powers of the Agency in relation to navigation and use of the principal rivers

The Agency may preserve, manage and improve the principal rivers for their navigation and use.

In exercise of its powers under paragraph (1) the Agency may maintain and improve existing works, buildings and other facilities and construct, erect, lay out, equip and maintain all such further works, buildings, conveniences and facilities, provide all such facilities, equipment and services and provide or do all the other acts or things it thinks necessary or expedient for that purpose.

The Agency may, for the purposes of, or in connection with, the management or control of navigation and use of the principal rivers, execute or do on any lands abutting on the principal rivers, by agreement with the owners and occupiers of the lands, any of the works or things referred to in paragraph (2) and any works requisite or expedient for the purpose of providing or facilitating access to or from, or for preserving the amenities of, those lands.

The powers conferred upon the Agency by this article may be exercised notwithstanding interference with the right of navigation referred to in article 7(2).

Nothing in this article confers on the Agency power to construct any lock or weir.