38 General consideration of applications
Water Resources Act 1991 (1991 c 57) | Legislation

Consideration of licence applications

38  General consideration of applications

(1)     The [appropriate agency] shall not determine any application for a licence under this Chapter before the end of the period specified [in the notice referred to in section 37(4)(b)] above.

[(1A)     An application shall be determined in two stages in accordance with subsections (1B) and (1C) below if it is an application for a full licence or a transfer licence which, if granted—

(a)     would take effect immediately after the expiry of an existing licence of the same type (the “existing licence”) and be held by the same person as the holder of that licence; but

(b)     would in any other respect be different from the existing licence in a way which, if the

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