Water Act 1989

32 (1) In section 8(5) of the Gas Act 1965 (liability to pay compensation where consent to controlled operations is refused), for the words from “or by” to “it shall” there shall be substituted the words “or by the National Rivers Authority, it shall”.

(2) In section 9(5) of that Act (compensation for withdrawal of consent or variation of conditions), for the words from “or by” to “it shall” there shall be substituted the words “or by the National Rivers Authority, it shall”.

(3) In section 15 of that Act (responsibility of public gas supplier for interference with supplies of water)—

(a) in subsection (2)(a), for the words from “undertakers” to “shall” there shall be substituted the words “undertakers or the National Rivers Authority, the public gas supplier shall”;

(b) in subsection (3), for the words from “undertakers”, in the first place where it occurs, to “provide” there shall be substituted the words “undertakers or the National Rivers Authority, the public gas supplier shall, if the statutory water undertakers or the National Rivers Authority provide”;

(c) in subsection (4), for the words from “undertakers” to “shall” there shall be substituted the words “undertakers or the National Rivers Authority, the public gas supplier shall”;

(d) in subsection (5)(b), for the words from “charges”, in the first place where it occurs, to “so payable” there shall be substituted the words “amounts payable—

(i) by virtue of section 129 of the Water Act 1989; and

(ii) in respect of the alternative supply of water to which subsection (3) or subsection (4) of this section relates,

having regard to the amount, if any, which would have been payable as mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) above”; and

(e) in subsection (10), for the words from “undertakers” to “or any” there shall be substituted the words “undertakers, the National Rivers Authority or any”.

(4) In section 17(5) of that Act (duty of public gas supplier to make arrangements with various bodies on the occurrence of any accident), in paragraph (a) for the words from the beginning to “undertakers” there shall be substituted the words “for the National Rivers Authority and for every police force, fire authority, statutory water undertakers and sewerage undertaker”.

(5) In section 28 of that Act (interpretation)—

(a) in subsection (1), in the definition of “Minister concerned with water resources”, for paragraphs (a) to (c) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(a) in relation to England and Wales, the Secretary of State;”

and

(b) for the definition of “statutory water undertakers” in that subsection there shall be substituted the following definition—

““statutory water undertakers” means any water undertaker”;

and subsection (5) shall have effect as if the reference in that subsection to section 56(1)(b) of the [1963 c. 38.] Water Resources Act 1963 included a reference to paragraph 32(1)(a) of Schedule 26 to this Act.

(6) In Schedule 2 to that Act (storage authorisation orders), in each of paragraphs 4(2), 7(3), 12(1) and 16(2)—

(a) in paragraph (a), for the words from “authority, every” to “within” there shall be substituted the words “authority and every local authority who are not a local planning authority, being, in either case, an authority within”;

(b) in paragraph (b), for the words “limits of supply” there shall be substituted the word “area”; and

(c) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(bb) on the National Rivers Authority, and”;

and, in paragraph 12(6), after the words “paragraph (b)” there shall be inserted the words “or paragraph (bb)”.

(7) In Schedule 3 to that Act (certificates as respects planning permission and grant of statutory licences to abstract water)—

(a) in paragraph 4—

(i) in sub-paragraph (1), for the words from “apply to” onwards there shall be substituted the words “apply to the National Rivers Authority for a certificate under this Schedule as respects those controlled operations.”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (2), for the words from the beginning to “shall” there shall be substituted the words “Where such an application is made, the National Rivers Authority shall”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (3), for the words from the beginning to “statutory” there shall be substituted the words “Where, in the opinion of the National Rivers Authority, a statutory”; and

(iv) in sub-paragraph (4), for the words from the beginning to “shall” there shall be substituted the words “On issuing the certificate, the National Rivers Authority shall”;

(b) in paragraph 5—

(i) in sub-paragraph (1), for the words from the beginning to “have issued” there shall be substituted the words “Where the National Rivers Authority has issued”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3), for the words from “and to” to “opportunity” there shall be substituted the words “and to the National Rivers Authority an opportunity”; and

(iii) in sub-paragraph (4), for the words from the beginning to “had issued” there shall be substituted the words “Where an application is made to the National Rivers Authority for a certificate under this Schedule and at the expiry of any period prescribed by regulations under this Schedule (or if an extended period is at any time agreed upon in writing by the applicant and the National Rivers Authority, at the end of that period) no certificate has been issued by the National Rivers Authority in accordance with this Schedule, the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall apply as if the National Rivers Authority had issued”;

and

(c) in paragraph 6, for the words from “Schedule, the” to “or as” there shall be substituted the words “Schedule, the National Rivers Authority or as”.

(8) In Part II of Schedule 4 to that Act (compulsory purchases affecting supplies of water), in paragraph 5—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1), for the words from “undertakers or a” to “provide” there shall be substituted the words “undertakers or the National Rivers Authority, the public gas supplier shall, if the statutory water undertakers or the National Rivers Authority provide”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (2), for the words from “undertakers” to “shall” there shall be substituted the words “undertakers or the National Rivers Authority, the public gas supplier shall”; and

(c) in sub-paragraph (4)(b), for the words from “charges”, in the first place where it occurs, to “fees”, in the fourth place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words “amounts payable, by virtue of section 129 of the Water Act 1989, in respect of an alternative supply of water to which the foregoing provisions of this paragraph relate exceed the amounts payable by virtue of that section in respect of the protected right (or where amounts are payable by virtue of that section in respect of an alternative supply but no amounts”.

(9) In Schedule 6 to that Act (power to enter on land and to prospect and survey land), in paragraph 2—

(a) for sub-paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(3) If notice of intention to carry out any such operations is given as respects land which is held by statutory undertakers or by an internal drainage board, and the statutory undertakers or the internal drainage board object to the proposed operations on the ground that the carrying out of the operations would be seriously detrimental to the carrying on of their undertaking or, in the case of an internal drainage board, to the performance of their functions, the operations shall not be carried out except with the consent of the appropriate Minister.”

(b) in sub-paragraph (4), for the words from “statutory” to “the undertakers” there shall be substituted the words “the National Rivers Authority or by statutory water undertakers unless he complies with any reasonable requirements imposed by the National Rivers Authority or, as the case may be, by the undertakers”; and

(c) in sub-paragraph (6), for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(c) when used in relation to an internal drainage board, means the Secretary of State or the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.”