Water Supplies Act, 1942

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Functions of Minister in relation to application for provisional order.

9.—Whenever an application for a provisional order is made under this Act, the Minister shall consider such application and shall do such one of the following things as he shall think proper, that is to say:—

(a) refuse such application, or

(b) make a provisional order in accordance, with such application, or

(c) alter the proposal which is the subject of such application in such one or more of the following ways as he shall think proper, that is to say, by reducing, as he shall think proper, any maximum rate stated in such proposal or by inserting such restrictions or conditions as he shall think proper on or in respect of the proposed taking of a supply of water or on or in respect of the ancillary operations specified in such proposal and then make a provisional order in respect of such proposal as so altered.