Water (Scotland) Act 1980

3 Water authorities. S

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the water authority for any area shall be the regional or islands council for that area.

(2) For any area specified in column 1 of the following table the water authority shall be the regional council specified in relation to that area in column 2 of that table.

Table

Area	Regional council to whose limits of supply the area in column 1 is added
1	2
The whole of the former county of Kinross.	Fife
That part of the former counties of Stirling and Dunbarton which on 16th May 1975 lay within both the Strathclyde Region and the region of the former Mid-Scotland Water Board.	Central
That part of the Stirling District and the Central Region situated at Craigmaddie Loch which on 1st April 1977 was transferred to the Strathkelvin District and the Strathclyde Region.	Central

(3) The area within which a water authority are to exercise their functions shall comprise the limits of supply of that authority.

(4) Notwithstanding section 57 (appointment of committees) of the M1 Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, where—

(a) a water authority have arranged under section 56 (discharge of functions) of the said Act of 1973 for the discharge of their functions relating to water by a committee, and

(b) the limits of supply of that authority include an added area,

then the members of that committee shall be appointed both by that authority and by the other water authority; and the number of such members to be appointed by each of those authorities shall be such number as may be agreed between them or in default of agreement as the Secretary of State may by order specify.

(5) A member of such a committee who represents the other water authority shall not be entitled to exercise a deliberative vote or to submit a motion or, except with the leave of the committee, to take part in a discussion except in respect of a matter relating solely or, in the opinion of the person presiding at the meeting of the committee, mainly to the exercise of any of the functions of the water authority of whose committee he is a member.

(6) Where the limits of supply of a water authority include an added area but the authority propose to make an arrangement for the discharge of their functions relating to water other than such an arrangement as is referred to in subsection (4)(a), then the proposed arrangement shall require the consent of the Secretary of State, who shall not give such consent unless he is satisfied that the interests of the other water authority will be adequately safeguarded by the proposed arrangement.

(7) In this section—

• “added area” means an area specified in column 1 of the table set out at the end of subsection (2) or in that column as amended or extended by an order under section 4;

• “the other water authority” means the authority in whose region the added area is situated.

Marginal Citations

M1 1973 c. 65.