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1(1)In this Act, subject to any order under sub-paragraph (2) below, “the metropolitan watercourses” means—E+W
(a)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;
(b)the watercourses shown marked in red on the signed plan as defined in and for the purposes of Part II (Alteration of Kent River Authority area and London excluded area) of the M1Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1968;
(c)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;
(d)the Beverley Brook, the river Graveney, the Pyl Brook and the river Wandle, and their associated watercourses;
(e)the river Brent, the river Crane and the Duke of Northumberland’s river, and their associated watercourses;
(f)any watercourse that immediately before the commencement of this Act was a metropolitan watercourse by virtue of an order under paragraph 15(2) of Schedule 14 to the M2London Government Act 1963;
and . . . F1
(2) The [F2Secretary of State] may, after consultation with . . . F3 the council of any district or London borough 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;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any enactment or instrument, no part of any of the metropolitan watercourses shall be or form part of a public sewer.
Textual Amendments
F1Definition of “main metropolitan watercourse” repealed by S.I. 1986/208, art. 5(3), Sch. 2
F2Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(2) substituted (27.3.2002) by S.I. 2002/794, art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 19 (with arts. 5(3), 6)
F3Words repealed by S.I. 1986/208, art. 5(3), Sch. 2
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