Part 2: Legislative and executive competence: further provision Chapter 16: Water Section 49: Modification of water-related functions
This section provides a power to modify water-related executive functions. These include those that were previously conferred on or transferred to the Welsh Ministers on the basis of areas served by water companies or river basin catchment areas and those that were retained by the Secretary of State on a similar basis. This is primarily to enable the transfer of such functions to or from the Welsh Ministers or to and from the Secretary of State (in practice the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) to align their respective functions with the border between England and Wales, etc. This section allows the transfer of such functions to specify that they will be carried out concurrently or jointly between those ministers, or with the consent or in consultation with each other.