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Section 111: Arrangements with navigation and conservancy authorities.

Water Resources Act 1991 · 1991 c. 57View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IV: FLOOD DEFENCE

Subject to subsection (2) below, the appropriate agency, with a view to improving the drainage of any land, may enter into an arrangement with a navigation authority or conservancy authority for any of the following purposes, that is to say—

the transfer to the appropriate agency of—
the whole or any part of the undertaking of the navigation authority or conservancy authority or of any of the rights, powers, duties, liabilities and obligations of that authority; or
any property vested in that authority as such;
the alteration or improvement by the appropriate agency of any of the works of the navigation authority or conservancy authority;
the making of payments by the appropriate agency to the navigation authority or conservancy authority or by that authority to the appropriate agency in respect of any matter for which provision is made by the arrangement.

The exercise by the appropriate agency of its power to enter into an arrangement under this section shall require the approval of the Ministers.

Where the appropriate agency is intending to enter into an arrangement under this section it shall publish a notice of its intention in such manner as may be directed by either of the Ministers.

Where an arrangement has been made under this section, the appropriate agency shall cause a notice under subsection (5) below to be published in the London Gazette in such form as may be prescribed by regulations made by one of the Ministers.

A notice under this subsection is a notice—

stating that the arrangement has been made; and
specifying the place at which a copy of the arrangement may be inspected by persons interested.

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