57 Emergency variation of licences for spray irrigation purposes
Water Resources Act 1991 (1991 c 57) | Legislation

57  Emergency variation of licences for spray irrigation purposes

(1)     This section applies where at any time—

(a)     one or more licences under this Chapter are in force in relation to a source of supply authorising water abstracted in pursuance of the licences to be used for the purpose of spray irrigation, or for that purpose together with other purposes; and

(b)     by reason of exceptional shortage of rain or other emergency, it appears to the [appropriate agency] that it is necessary to impose a temporary restriction on the abstraction of water for use for that purpose.

(2)

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