SCHEDULE 3AMENDMENTS AND ADAPTATIONS OF ENACTMENTS

Enactments relating to water

10.—(1) In section 28(1) of the Gas Act 1965, in the definition of “Minister concerned with water resources” the references in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) to the Minister of Housing and Local Government and to the Secretary of State shall have effect respectively as references to the Secretary of State for the Environment and to the Secretary of State for Wales, and the reference in paragraph (d) to the Secretary of State shall have effect as a reference to the Secretary of State for Scotland.

(2) In section 15(8) of the Gas Act 1965, and in paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to that Act, in the expression “the Minister and the Minister concerned with water resources”, the reference to the Minister shall have effect as a reference to the Secretary of State for the time being discharging the functions expressed to be conferred on the Minister by that Act; and regulations under paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to that Act shall be made jointly by that Secretary of State and the Secretary of State concerned as planning Minister.