Commentary on provisions of the Act Section 9: Abstraction and impounding: power to impose general conditions
This section amends the Water Resources Act 1991 to insert a new section 46B to confer on the Secretary of State (in relation to England) and Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales) a new power to impose conditions or general rules into water industry licences (as defined in subsection (3)) for water abstraction and impoundment activity. The new section 46B enables the use of the provisions set out in section 8 of this Act in respect of breaches of such conditions and general rules in water industry abstraction and impoundment licences.