Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022

Transitional arrangements consequent upon revocation of Regulations of 2018

113. (1) A person carrying out an abstraction on the coming into operation of section 11 which meets or exceeds the registration threshold and which abstraction is entered in the register of abstractions on or before that coming into operation shall be taken to have complied with the requirements of subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of section 11 .

(2) An abstraction referred to in subsection (1) that is entered in the register of abstractions shall, on the coming into operation of section 11 , be deemed to be entered in the appropriate part of the register.

(3) A registration number issued under Regulation 4(2) of the Regulations of 2018 shall be deemed to be a registration number under section 11 (5).

(4) Notwithstanding the revocation of the Regulations of 2018 by section 7 (2), where a person made a notification of information under Regulation 4 of the Regulations of 2018 prior to revocation of those Regulations, that notification shall be treated as a notice given to the Agency under section 11 (1).

(5) In this section, “register of abstractions” means the register established by the Agency under Regulation 3 of the Regulations of 2018.