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54(1)Where any order made under the 1945 Act has effect immediately before the transfer date in relation to a statutory water company or water authority as a local statutory provision, the repeal by this Act of the power under which that order was made and the repeal of any provision of Part V of that Act shall not, subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, affect the operation on and after that date of that order or, in relation to that order, of that Part.E+W

(2)Any order which has effect by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) above shall so have effect as if any reference in that order to a particular water authority were a reference to that authority’s successor company; and nothing in that sub-paragraph shall affect the exercise in relation to such an order of the power conferred by section 191 of this Act or prejudice the effect, in relation to any such order of—

(a)any repeal by this Act of provisions of Schedule 3 to the 1945 Act applied (with or without modifications) by that order;

(b)any saving made by the preceding provisions of this Schedule in relation to any such repeal; or

(c)in the case of an order making such provision as is mentioned in section 23(1)(c) of that Act or applying, or making provision corresponding to, any of sections 74 to 77 of Schedule 3 to that Act, the provisions of [F1the Statutory Water Companies Act 1991].

(3)Without prejudice to any amendment made by or under this Act, the repeal by this Act of subsection (2) of section 6 of the M1Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Act 1988 shall not affect any modification made before the transfer date by an order made before that date under that subsection.

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