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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The British Waterways Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 No. 1659
11.—(1) The Water Resources Act 1991(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In the heading to section 66 (inland waterways owned or managed by British Waterways Board), for “British Waterways Board” substitute “Canal & River Trust”.
(3) In section 66(2)—
(a)in subsection (1), for “the British Waterways Board (“the Board”)”, substitute “Canal & River Trust”;
(b)in subsections (2)(b) and (c) and (3), for “the Board” in each place occurring, substitute “Canal & River Trust”.
(4) In the heading to section 130 (charges in respect of abstraction from waters of British Waterways Board), for “British Waterways Board” substitute “Canal & River Trust”.
(5) In section 130(3), in subsections (1) and (2), for “the British Waterways Board” and “the Board” in each place occurring, substitute “Canal & River Trust”.
Section 66 was amended by the Water Act 2003 (c. 37), sections 14(3)(d) and 101; Schedule 7, Part 1, paragraphs 1 and 7, and Schedule 9, Part 3, and by the Environment Act 1995, Schedule 22, paragraph 128.
Section 130 was amended by the Environment Act 1995, Schedule 22, paragraph 128.
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