The Local Authorities etc. (Miscellaneous Provision) Order 1977

Power of statutory water undertakers to lay mains

7.—(1) Section 19 (power to lay mains) of Schedule 3 to the Water Act 1945 shall apply throughout the water supply area of any water authority other than the Welsh National Water Development Authority, and shall so apply with the substitution for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of the following paragraph:—

“(b) in, on or over any land not forming part of a street, after giving reasonable notice to every owner and occupier of that land, and with the consent of—

(i) the highway authority concerned, if the main will be laid within 220 feet of any highway; and

(ii) the electricity or gas board concerned, if the main will be laid in, on or over any land of that board being operational land within the meaning of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971.”,

and any local statutory provisions shall cease to have effect in so far as it applies the said section 19 in any such water supply area.

(2) In this article “water supply area”, in relation to any water authority, means the area within which it is the duty of that authority to supply water under Part II of the Water Act 1973.

(3) This article is made by the Secretary of State for the Environment.