Part 5: Water Section 92: Solway Tweed river basin district: power to transfer functions
Section 92 confers a power to be exercised by the Secretary of State to amend the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004 ("the Solway Tweed Regulations") to allow future changes to the exercise of functions in the Solway Tweed River Basin District.
	Subsection (3) enables regulations to be made that provide for functions under the Solway Tweed Regulations to be exercised in a different manner. For example, it would enable changes to functions that are currently joint between the Secretary of State and Scottish Ministers for the whole of the river basin district.
	Subsection (4) would allow amendments to the functions of the Environment Agency and Scottish Environment Protection Agency. These could be split to enable, for example, monitoring of English water bodies by the Environment Agency alone.
	Subsection (5) allows for changes to the geographical area in which the functions can be exercised. For example, the functions could be amended so that in future they are exercised by the Secretary of State alone in relation to the English part, and the Scottish Ministers alone in the Scottish part.
	Subsection (6) would enable requirements to be imposed on such functions so that they are exercisable with the consent of the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers, or after consultation.
	Subsection (7) requires the consent of the Scottish Ministers for any regulations under this section.
	Subsection (8) states that regulations made under this section are subject to the negative procedure.
	Subsection (9) provides a definition.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales and Scotland, and applies to the area of the Solway Tweed river basin district which is partly in England and partly in Scotland.