These Regulations specify enactments for the purposes of section 102(5)(b) of the Water Act 2003 (c. 37). Section 102(5)(b) provides that nothing in those specified enactments prevents the Environment Agency or the Natural Resources Body for Wales (“the appropriate agency”) from granting a licence under Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57) in respect of abstractions of water described in that section.
Link: The Water Abstraction (Specified Enactments) Regulations 2017
Source: Legislation .gov.uk