Water Resources Act 1963

134 Regulations and orders

(1) The Minister may make regulations under this Act for any purpose for which regulations are authorised or required to be made under this Act, not being a purpose for which regulations are authorised or required to be made by two or more Ministers jointly.

(2) Any power to make regulations under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument: and any instrument containing any such regulations shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of ether House of Parliament.

(3) Any power conferred by this Act to make an order shall include power to vary or revoke the order by a subsequent order.

(4) Any power to make orders under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument:

Provided that this subsection does not apply to—

(a) any power exercisable by virtue of section 65 of this Act;

(b) any power exercisable by virtue of section 108 of this Act.

(5) The following orders under this Act shall be of no effect unless approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament, that is to say—

(a) any order under section 125 of this Act;

(b) any order under subsection (2) of the last preceding section, if the order first-mentioned in that subsection is an order under section 125 of this Act.

(6) Any statutory instrument containing—

(a) an order under section 3 of this Act by virtue of which the number of members (excluding additional members) of a river authority will exceed thirty-one, or

(b) an order under section 10 of this Act which varies a previous order under that section in such a way that the number of members (excluding additional members) of a river authority will exceed thirty-one, but does not alter any river authority area or designate any new area, or

(c) an order under section 57, under section 105 or under section 116 of this Act, or

(d) an order under the last preceding section,

shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of ether House of Parliament:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any order which, by virtue of paragraph (b) of the last preceding subsection, is required to be approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.