London Government Act 1963

15 (1) Subject to the provisions of any order under the next following sub-paragraph, in this Schedule—

• " the metropolitan watercourses " means the watercourses described in column 1 of the following Table ;

• " the main metropolitan watercourses " means the tidal Thames and the watercourses mentioned by name in paragraphs 2 to 4 of that Table ;

• " the tidal Thames " means the watercourses described in paragraph 1 of that Table ;

• " local enactment " means, in relation to any watercourse, the enactments specified in relation thereto in column 2 of that Table:

  TABLE

  1. So much of the river Thames as lies within the London excluded area, including all its associated watercourses within the flow and re-flow of its tides in that area.	The Thames River (Prevention of Floods) Acts 1879 to 1962 and section 14 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act 1932.
  2. The river Ravensbourne, the Chaffinch Brook, the Beck River, the Pool River, the Quaggy River, the Kid Brook, the Kyd Brook and the Lower Kid Brook, and their associated watercourses.	The River Ravensbourne, &c. (Improvement and Flood Prevention) Act 1961.
  3. The Beverley Brook, the river Graveney, the Pyl Brook and the river Wandle, and their associated watercourses.	Part II of the Surrey County Council Act 1925, section 15 of the Surrey County Council Act 1931, Part II of the Surrey County Council Act 1936 and the London and Surrey (River Wandle and River Graveney) (Jurisdiction) Act 1960.
  4. The river Brent, the river Crane and the Duke of Northumberland's river, and their associated watercourses.	Part V of the Middlesex County Council Act 1944.

(2) The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food may, after consultation with the Greater London Council and the council of any London borough or county district appearing to him to be affected, by order provide that—

(a) the whole or any part of a watercourse within the London excluded area shall become a metropolitan watercourse ; or

(b) the whole or any part of a watercourse other than the tidal Thames shall cease to be a metropolitan watercourse ; or

(c) the whole or any part of a metropolitan watercourse shall become or cease to be a main metropolitan watercourse.

(3) In this Schedule—

• " associated watercourse " in relation to any river means a tributary or other watercourse the water from which ultimately flows into, or which is directly or indirectly connected with, that river ;

• " banks " has the same meaning as in the Land Drainage Act 1930;

• " flood works ", in relation to the tidal Thames, has the same meaning as in the local enactments relating thereto ;

• " London excluded area " means so much of Greater London, and of any area adjoining Greater London, as does not lie within the Thames catchment area, the Lee catchment area or the area of any river board or river authority ;

• " public sewer " has the same meaning as in the Public Health Act 1936 ;

• " watercourse " includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows, except that it does not include so much of any public sewer as lies outside the flow and re-flow of the tides ;

and any reference in this Schedule to a particular river does not include a reference to so much of the river as is a public sewer and lies outside the flow and re-flow of the tides, and any mention of a particular river shall not be construed as prejudicing the meaning of the expression " associated watercourse ".