Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975

56 In Schedule 17 (amendment of enactments relating to water)—

(a) for paragraph 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“1 (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any order made thereunder, any reference in any enactment, order, scheme, regulations, award 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 of paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Water (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.”;

(b) in paragraph 47 for the word " (c) " there shall be substituted the word " (a) ".