SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 10 Miscellaneous Amendments
Water (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 45)
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1
The Water (Scotland) Act 1980 shall be amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1) of section 31 (consultation with English authorities)—
a
after the words “consult with” there shall be inserted “
(a)
”
; and
b
at the end of the subsection there shall be added the words
; and
b
the river purification board in whose area any watercourse or underground strata from which or to which it is proposed to transfer water under this subsection is situated.
3
In subsection (3)(a) of section 33 (notice of temporary discharge of water into watercourses)—
a
after the word “intentions” there shall be inserted “
(i)
”
; and
b
after the words “within which” there shall be inserted the words
; and
ii
the river purification board in whose area,
4
The words of section 76K (power to give effect to international obligations) shall be subsection (1) of that section and the section shall be further amended as follows—
a
in subsection (1) leave out the words from “
to give effect
”
to the end of that subsection and insert—
a
to give effect to any Community obligation or exercise any related right; or
b
to give effect to any obligation or exercise any related right under any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is for the time being a party.
b
after subsection (1) there shall be added the following subsection—
2
In this section—
“modifications” includes additions, alterations and omissions; and
“related right”, in relation to an obligation, includes any derogation or other right to make more onerous provisions available in respect of that obligation.
5
In section 101 (power to make regulations) after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
1A
Regulations made under this Act may make—
a
such supplemental, consequential or transitional provision as the Secretary of State thinks fit;
b
different provision for different cases or classes of case.
6
In section 109(1) (interpretation of expressions) in the definition of “river purification authority” at the end there shall be added “
and “river purification board” shall be construed in accordance with section 135 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
”
.