Schedule 25, paragraph 5(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (1) above and subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, the appropriate agency may, in particular, make byelaws for any of the following purposes, that is to say— regulating the use and preventing the improper use of any watercourses, banks or works vested in the appropriate agency or under its control or for preserving any such watercourses, banks or works from damage or destruction; regulating the opening of sluices and flood gates in connection with any such works as are mentioned in paragraph (a) above; preventing the obstruction of any watercourse vested in the appropriate agency or under its control by the discharge into it of any liquid or solid matter or by reason of any such matter being allowed to flow or fall into it; compelling the persons having control of any watercourse vested in the appropriate agency or under its control, or of any watercourse flowing into any such watercourse, to cut the vegetable growths in or on the bank of the watercourse and, when cut, to remove them.

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