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Section 156: Acquisition of land etc. for fisheries purposes.

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

Part VII: Land and Works Powers — chapter I: POWERS OF THE APPROPRIATE AGENCY

Without prejudice to section 37 of the 1995 Act (incidental general powers of the Agency)or article 9 of the Natural Resources Body for Wales (Establishment) Order 2012 (general incidental function of the Body) (S.I.2012/1903), the powers conferred on the Agency or, as the case may be, the NRBW, by those provisions and section 154 above include power to purchase or take on lease (either by agreement or, if so authorised, compulsorily)—

any dam, fishing weir, fishing mill dam, fixed engine or other artificial obstruction and any fishery attached to or worked in connection with any such obstruction;
so much of the bank adjoining a dam as may be necessary for making or maintaining a fish pass for the purposes of section 10 of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975; and
for the purpose of erecting and working a fixed engine, any fishery land or foreshore together with any easement over any adjoining land necessary for securing access to the fishery land or foreshore so acquired.

Without prejudice to section 37 of the 1995 Act (incidental general powers of the Agency) or article 9 of the Natural Resources Body for Wales (Establishment) Order 2012 (general incidental function of the Body) (S.I.2012/1903), the Agency or, as the case may be, the NRBW, may—

either alter or remove an obstruction acquired in the exercise of the powers mentioned in subsection (1) above; or
by itself or its lessees use or work in any lawful manner the obstruction for fishing purposes and exercise the right by any fishery so acquired,

subject, in the case of an obstruction or fishery acquired by way of lease, to the terms of the lease.

Expressions used in this section and in the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 have the same meanings in this section as in that Act.

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