Article 4 Modification of the maximum quantity of water authorised to be abstracted under the Company’s Licence

While this Order is in force, the Schedule of Conditions to the Company’s Licence is to be read as if for condition 10.7(b) there were substituted—

“Conditions 10.1-10.3 shall be replaced by the following Conditions—

• “10.1 Abstraction at all times under this licence shall reduce without delay to 210 Ml/d when the flow in the River Ouse, as measured at the Agency’s gauging station at Skelton (NGR: SE568 554), is equal to or less than 1,000 Ml/d (11.574 cubic metres per second (cumecs)).

• 10.2 Abstraction at all times under this licence shall reduce without delay to 132 Ml/d when the flow in the River Ouse as measured at the Agency’s gauging station at Skelton is equal to or less than 650 Ml/d.

• 10.3 Abstraction at all times under this licence shall reduce without delay to 70 Ml/d when the flow in the River Ouse as measured at the Agency’s gauging station at Skelton is equal to or less than 400 Ml/d.””.