Water Act 1989

42 Where before the transfer date any water authority was proposing to carry out, or was carrying out, any works and the Authority or any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker proposes to carry out or to continue to carry out those works on or after that date—

(a) any notice of an intention to carry out the works which had been served on any person before that date and any other notice served in connection with the carrying out of those works on the person proposing to carry out the works or on any other person;

(b) any consent given before that date for the purposes of those works; and

(c) any determination made before that date by any arbitration in relation to those works and any step taken for the purposes of any such arbitration,

shall have effect on and after that date as if it had been served, given, made or taken for the purposes of the carrying out of those works by the Authority or, as the case may be, that undertaker in accordance with any power conferred by this Act and, in the case of a notice served by or on a water authority, as if it had been served by or on the Authority or, as the case may be, that undertaker.