Part 2: Legislative and executive competence: further provision Chapter 16: Water Section 50: Water protocol
This section enables the Welsh Ministers and Secretary of State (in practice the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) to make an agreement to ensure that the actions or inactions of those parties, and public bodies exercising functions in England or Wales, do not have a serious adverse impact on water resources, water supply or water quality on the other side of their respective borders. The water protocol, once agreed and whenever it is amended, has to be laid before the Assembly and Parliament. .