217 Construction of provision conferring powers by reference to undertakers' functions
Water Industry Act 1991 (1991 c 56) | Legislation

217  Construction of provision conferring powers by reference to undertakers' functions

(1)     The purposes to which this section applies shall be the construction of any enactment which, by reference to the functions of a relevant undertaker, confers any power on or in relation to that undertaker.

(2)     For the purposes to which this section applies the functions of every relevant undertaker shall be taken to include joining with or acting on behalf of—

(a)     the [Environment Agency] [or the NRBW];

(b)     one or more other relevant undertakers; or

(c)     the [Environment Agency] [or the NRBW] and one or more other such undertakers,

for the purpose of carrying out any works or acquiring any land which at least one of the bodies with which it joins, or on whose behalf it acts, is authorised to

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