SCHEDULES
X1SCHEDULE 17 Amendment of Enactments relating to Water
General
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any order made thereunder, any reference in any enactment, order, scheme, regulations, awards or byelaws passed or made before the coming into force of this Act—
a
in unspecified terms to a regional water board or the region of such a board (or any expression construed as such a reference by virtue 6 of paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the M2Water (Scotland) Act 1967) or to a constituent board shall be construed respectively as a reference to a water authority or to the limits of supply of such an authority or to a constituent water authority;
b
to a particular regional water board or the region of such a board (or any expression construed as aforesaid) shall be construed respectively as a reference to the water authority responsible for the water undertaking to which the enactment relates or to the limits of supply of such an authority.
2
If there is any doubt as to the identity of the water authority referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above, that authority shall be taken to be such authority as may be specified in a direction given by the Secretary of State.
The Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944
2
In section 7(2) (application to Scotland) in the substituted section 1(6)(a) for the words “burgh or county” there shall be substituted the words “region or islands area”.
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F3 The Water Act 1973
Sch. 17 para. 64 repealed (prosp.) by Water Act 1983 (c. 23, SIF 130), s. 11(3), Sch. 5 Pt. I
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In the Water Act M11973 any reference to a regional water board shall be construed as a reference to water authority.
The text of Schs. 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17(2)–(64), 18, 23, 24, 25, 27 Pt. II, 28, 29 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.