Amendments proposed to the Water Bill [Lords] - continued House of Commons

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Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

196

Clause     20,     page     23,     line     22,     at end insert—

      '(f) a duty for the Agency to publicise the procedure and expiry date for applying for a protected right to be included in the register.'.

   

Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

197

Clause     20,     page     23,     line     30,     leave out 'two' and insert 'four'.

   

Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

198

Clause     20,     page     23,     line     34,     leave out from 'Agency' to end of line 35.


   

Mr Robert Key

164

Clause     21,     page     24,     line     7,     at end insert—

    '(2A)   At the end of subsection (2) there is inserted—

      "(c) provision for ensuring public access to information about the quantities of water referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b).".'.

   

Mr Robert Key

165

Clause     21,     page     24,     line     15,     at end insert—

    '(3A)   After subsection (3) there is inserted—

      "(3A) Every licence under this Chapter to abstract water shall impose a duty to use the water abstracted in an efficient manner, so as to further water conservation.'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

47

Clause     21,     page     24,     line     22,     at end insert—

    '( )   The expiry date shall take into account the availability of water in the source of supply to which the licence applies and the investment needs of the applicant.'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

49

Clause     21,     page     24,     line     24,     at end insert—

    '(5B)   In determining the period that a licence under this Chapter shall remain in force, the Agency shall take into account—

      (a) the life expectancy of any associated infrastructure works (existing and prospective),

      (b) the costs of those works (actual and projected), and

      (c) the period over which those costs may reasonably be expected to have to be recovered.'.

   

Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

140

Clause     21,     page     24,     line     26,     at end add—

    '(6)   All licences which were hitherto expressed under section 46(5) of the WRA as remaining in force until revoked shall, over a 6 year period beginning on the 15th July 2012, be reissued to state—

      (a) the date on which they take effect, and

      (b) the date on which they expire.'.


   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

50

Clause     22,     page     25,     line     16,     at end add—

    '(5)   There shall be a presumption that any licence in respect of which the conditions of this section are met shall be renewed unless the Agency is able to show that revocation is necessary in order to protect any waters or underground strata, or any flora or fauna dependent on them, from serious damage.".'.


   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

39

Clause     23,     page     25,     leave out lines 27 to 34.

   

Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

199

Clause     23,     page     25,     line     34,     at end insert—

    '(1BB)   The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for the form and contents of notifications to a licence holder of conditions required by subsection (1B) above.'.

   

Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

200

Clause     23,     page     26,     line     10,     leave out from 'Agency' to 'and' in line 11.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

40

Clause     23,     page     26,     line     21,     leave out subsection (5).


   

Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

201

Clause     26,     page     31,     line     29,     at end insert 'or to their property or to both'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

41

Clause     26,     page     31,     line     31,     at end insert 'and the Environment Agency'.

   

Mr Robert Key

224

*Clause     26,     page     31,     line     40,     at end insert—

    '( )   For the purposes of this section "loss or damage" shall not mean any diminution in the value of land'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

52

Clause     26,     page     32,     line     15,     at end insert—

    '(8)   It shall be a defence to proceedings brought under this section that the abstractor was abstracting the water in accordance with the provisions of a licence granted under this Chapter.".'.


   

Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

141

Clause     27,     page     32,     line     30,     leave out subsection (2).

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

42

Clause     27,     page     32,     line     30,     leave out 'four' and insert 'six'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

228

*Clause     27,     page     32,     line     30,     at end insert 'except in the case of licences where water would otherwise be abstracted for use on land which is subject to phytosanitary restrictions.'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

51

Clause     27,     page     32,     line     30,     at end insert—

    '(2A)   After subsection (4) there is inserted—

          "(4ZA)   Subsection (4) shall not apply while the possibility of the abstraction of water under the licence constitutes part of—

          (a) any water resource management scheme maintained under section 20, 20A or 20B, or

          (b) any drought plan maintained under section 39B.".'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

53

Clause     27,     page     33,     line     7,     at end insert—

    '(4C)   Whenever the Secretary of State determines that compensation should not be paid under this section in respect of the variation of a licence on the grounds set out in subsection (4A) above, the holder of the licence may dispute the determination by referring the dispute to the arbitration of a single arbitrator appointed by the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

    (4D)   When a dispute is referred to arbitration under subsection (4C)—

      (a) the arbitrator shall take into account any representations that the Secretary of State, the Environment Agency or the Authority may wish to submit to him; and

      (b) in making his award the arbitrator may confirm, revoke or vary the whole of the Secretary of State's determination, or any part of the determination whether the reference relates to that part of the determination or not.".'.


   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

43

Clause     28,     page     33,     leave out lines 31 to 38.


   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

229

*Clause     29,     page     34,     line     3,     at end insert 'or such later date as the Secretary of State may by order prescribe'.

   

Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

202

Clause     29,     page     34,     line     11,     leave out 'serious' and insert 'significant'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

54

Clause     29,     page     34,     line     15,     at end insert—

    '(1A)   When the holder of the licence is a company appointed as a water undertaker under the WIA, the revocation or variation will not—

      (a) require the undertaker, in order to meet all its existing obligations to supply water for domestic or other purposes, together with its probable future obligations to supply buildings and parts of buildings with water for domestic purposes, to incur unreasonable expenditure in carrying out works; or

      (b) otherwise put at risk its ability to meet any of the existing or probable future obligations mentioned in paragraph (a) above.'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

55

Clause     29,     page     34,     line     17,     at end insert—

    '(2A)   Whenever the Secretary of State determines under this section that compensation should not be paid under section 61 of the WRA in respect of the revocation or variation of a licence, the holder of the licence may dispute the determination by referring the dispute to the arbitration of a single arbitrator appointed by the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

    (2B)   When a dispute is referred to arbitration under subsection (2A)—

      (a) the arbitrator shall take into account any representations that the Secretary of State, the Environment Agency or the Authority may wish to submit to him; and

      (b) in making his award the arbitrator may confirm, revoke or vary the whole of the Secretary of State's determination, or any part of the determination whether the reference relates to that part of the determination or not.'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key

44

Page     34,     line     1,     leave out Clause 29.


   

Norman Baker
Sue Doughty

203

Clause     30,     page     35,     line     6,     after 'shall', insert 'put these arrangements in the public domain and'.

   

Mr Bill Wiggin
Mr George Osborne
Mr Robert Key
Mr Simon Thomas

45

Clause     30,     page     35,     line     7,     at end insert 'and these arrangements shall be put in the public domain'.



 
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