[59C Apportionment of licence to abstract]
Water Resources Act 1991 (1991 c 57) | Legislation

[59C  Apportionment of licence to abstract]

[(1)     The holder of a full licence or of a transfer licence (the “old licence”) may apply to the [appropriate agency] for the division of the holder's right to abstract water in accordance with the old licence and for the transfer—

(a)     to another person of part, or to a number of other persons of parts not amounting to the whole; or

(b)     to a number of other persons of parts amounting in all to the whole,

of that right.

(2)     The holder of the old licence and any person proposing to carry on a part of the abstraction authorised by the old licence in place of the holder (a “successor”) shall give notice to the [appropriate agency] of their agreement to the division and transfer (an “apportionment notice”).

(3)     The apportionment notice shall, in relation to the abstraction authorised by the old licence—

(a)     specify, for each proposed successor, what quantity of water he proposes to abstract, and (if the holder of the old licence is to continue the abstraction in part) what quantity of water he proposes to abstract;

(b)     specify the purpose or purposes for which those persons referred to in paragraph

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