Water Act 1989

23 (1) In subsection (1) of section 82 of the 1963 Act (transfers of certain property and functions and of reservoirs, wells, boreholes, etc.), for the words from “any one” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words “any of the functions or property of a navigation authority, conservancy authority or harbour authority.”

(2) For subsection (9) of that section (definition of “the Ministers”) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

“(9) In this section and Schedule 10 to this Act “the Ministers” means the Minister, the appropriate Minister and (except where all the functions in question are exercisable in Wales and all the property in question is situated there) the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, in the case of anything falling to be done by the Ministers, means those Ministers acting jointly.”

(3) Any functions which immediately before the transfer date are functions of a water authority by virtue of an order or agreement under that section shall on that date become functions of the Authority; and, on and after the transfer date, any provision made with respect to the transfer of any functions by such an order and in force or effective immediately before that date shall have effect, with the necessary modifications, in relation to the Authority as it had effect in relation to the water authority in whom those functions were vested before that date.