21 Minimum acceptable flows

21  Minimum acceptable flows

(1)     The [appropriate agency] may, if it thinks it appropriate to do so, submit a draft statement to the Secretary of State containing, in relation to any inland waters that are not discrete waters—

(a)     provision for determining the minimum acceptable flow for those waters; or

(b)     where any provision for determining such a flow is for the time being in force in relation to those waters, provision for amending that provision or for replacing it with different provision for determining the minimum acceptable flow for those waters.

(2)     The provision contained in any statement for determining the minimum acceptable flow for any inland waters shall, in relation to the inland waters to which it relates, set out—

(a)     the control points at which the flow in the waters is to be measured;

(b)     the method of measurement which is to be used at each control point; and

(c)     the flow which is to be the minimum acceptable flow at each control point or, where appropriate, the flows which are to be the minimum acceptable flows at each such point for the different times or periods specified in the statement.

(3)     Before preparing so

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