Section 10(2)

For the relevant purposes, the functions of an appropriate agency shall be taken to include the protection against pollution of— any waters, whether on the surface or underground, which belong to the appropriate agency or any water undertaker or from which the appropriate agency or any water undertaker is authorised to take water; without prejudice to paragraph (a) above, any reservoir which belongs to or is operated by the appropriate agency or any water undertaker or which the appropriate agency or any water undertaker is proposing to acquire or construct for the purpose of being so operated; and any underground strata from which the appropriate agency or any water undertaker is for the time being authorised to abstract water in pursuance of a licence under Chapter II of Part II of the 1991 Act (abstraction and impounding).

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30