If there is a change of use—for example, if you are a landowner with an extraction licence who now, under the new regime, wants to put it into the water system—then the Environment Agency has to give a change of use certificate, and will judge that in the same way as if it was a new extraction licence. So that control is there. However, if it is simply a bulk transfer within existing use and with existing abstractors, then that break is not there. I think I am right in saying that.
Water Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Whitty
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 4 February 2014.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Water Bill.
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