http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/15/schedule/25/paragraph/38Water Act 1989An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of a National Rivers Authority and of committees to advise that Authority; to provide for the transfer of the property, rights and liabilities of water authorities to the National Rivers Authority and to companies nominated by the Secretary of State and for the dissolution of those authorities; to provide for the appointment and functions of a Director General of Water Services and of customer service committees; to provide for companies to be appointed to be water undertakers and sewerage undertakers and for the regulation of the appointed companies; to make provision with respect to, and the finances of, the nominated companies, holding companies of the nominated companies and statutory water companies; to amend the law relating to the supply of water and the law relating to the provision of sewers and the treatment and disposal of sewage; to amend the law with respect to the pollution of water and the law with respect to its abstraction from inland waters and underground strata; to make new provision in relation to flood defence and fisheries; to transfer functions with respect to navigation, conservancy and harbours to the National Rivers Authority; and for connected purposes.1989-07-06texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2025-01-20Expert Participation2025-01-01Water Act 1989s. 174(3)(lp)Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024Sch. 30 para. 9(a)s. 339(1) SCHEDULESSCHEDULE 25 Minor and Consequential Amendments The Transport Act 1968 (c. 73)38(1)

In section 109 of the Transport Act 1968 (powers to maintain or take over waterways and connected works)—

(a)

in subsection (2)—

(i)

for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—(b)

the National Rivers Authority;

(ii)

for paragraph (h) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—(h)

a water undertaker;

(b)

in subsection (3), for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—(b)

the National Rivers Authority unless the Ministers (as defined in section 82(9) of the Water Resources Act 1963) have consented to the agreement or transfer;

and

(c)

in subsection (5)—

(i)

for the words from “authority or” to “may” there shall be substituted the words “authority may”; and

(ii)

for the words from “authorities (whether” to “who” there shall be substituted the words “authorities who”.

(2)

In section 112 of that Act (power to extinguish statutory rights and obligations in respect of canals not comprised in undertaking of Waterways Board)—

(a)

in subsection (2), for the words from “any local” to “in whose” there shall be substituted the words “the National Rivers Authority or any local authority in whose”; and

(b)

in subsection (3)(a), for the words from “local authority” to “or the” there shall be substituted the words “local authority, the National Rivers Authority or the”.

(3)

In section 113(5) of that Act (byelaws in respect of waterways owned or managed by certain bodies), in the definition of “relevant authority”, for the words from “means” to “order)” there shall be substituted the words “means, except in a case where it is itself the applicant for the order, the National Rivers Authority or any local authority”.

(4)

In paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 13 to that Act (inquiries in connection with proposed orders relating to inland waterways), in paragraph (a), for the words from “authority or” onwards there shall be substituted the words “authority or the National Rivers Authority”.