The Mid-Sussex Water Company (Constitution and Regulation) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 18

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Mid-Sussex Water Company (Constitution and Regulation) Order 1992

Made

8th January 1992

Laid before Parliament

14th January 1992

Coming into force

4th February 1992

Whereas provision is made for the constitution and regulation of the Mid-Sussex Water Company (“the Company”) in local statutory provisions (“the relevant provisions”):

And whereas the Company holds an appointment as a water undertaker under Chapter I of Part II of the Water Industry Act 1991(1):

And whereas the relevant provisions would, if the Company became a registered water company(2), have effect in accordance with paragraph 5 of Schedule 21 to the Companies Act 1985(3):

And whereas the Company has by a special resolution passed on 29th October 1991 (“the special resolution”) proposed that provision contained in a memorandum and articles described in the Schedule to this Order (“the memorandum and articles”), copies of which have been certified as such by the Secretary of State, shall have effect in substitution for the relevant provisions (“the proposal”):

And whereas it appears to the Secretary of State that the requirements set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 12(2) of the Statutory Water Companies Act 1991(4) (“the Act”) are satisfied as respects the proposal:

And whereas it appears to the Secretary of State appropriate in consequence of his approval of the proposal by this Order that the local statutory provisions specified in article 4 of this Order be repealed:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 12(1) and 14 of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Mid-Sussex Water Company (Constitution and Regulation) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 4th February 1992.

Approval of proposal contained in the special resolution

2.  The proposal contained in the special resolution is hereby approved.

Date on which memorandum and articles come into force etc.

3.  The date specified for the purposes of section 12(1) of the Act as the date on which the memorandum and articles shall come into force and the relevant provisions shall cease to have effect is 4th February 1992.

Consequential provision

4.  The Order referred to in column (1) of the following Table is repealed to the extent indicated in column (2) thereof with effect from 4th February 1992.

TABLE

(1)	(2)
The Mid-Sussex Water Order 1985(5).	Section 3 so far as relating to the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845(6), the Companies Clauses Act 1863(7) and sections 74 to 78 of the Third Schedule to the Water Act 1945(8).
	Sections 4 to 19 and 21 to 24. In Schedule 1, the entries relating to sections 75 to 77 of the Third Schedule to the Water Act 1945.

Michael Heseltine

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

8th January 1992

SCHEDULE DOCUMENTS HAVING EFFECT AS MENTIONED IN SECTION 12(1) (b) OF THE STATUTORY WATER COMPANIES ACT 1991

The documents comprising the Memorandum of Association of Mid-Sussex Water plc and the Articles of Association of Mid-Sussex Water plc(9).

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 12(1) of the Statutory Water Companies Act 1991 provides for the replacement of provisions relating to the constitution and regulation of a statutory water company contained in its local Acts and Orders by provisions contained in a memorandum and articles which have been approved by special resolution of the members of the company. The replacement provisions have effect only if they are approved by the Secretary of State and come into force on such date as he determines.

This Order approves a proposal by the Mid-Sussex Water Company that a memorandum and articles of association should have effect in substitution for provisions contained in the Company’s local Acts and Orders (article 2). It also provides that the date on which those provisions cease to have effect is 4th February 1992 (article 3) and for the repeal of the superseded provisions and for consequential repeals (article 4).

This Order is associated with the company’s proposal to convert to the status of a registered company under the Companies Act 1985.

(1)

1991 c. 56.

(2)

See section 15(2) of the Statutory Water Companies Act 1991 (c. 58).

(3)

1985 c. 6.

(4)

1991 c. 58.

(5)

S.I. 1985/513.

(6)

1845 c. 16.

(7)

1863 c. 118, amended by the Companies Clauses Act 1869 (c. 48).

(8)

1945 c. 42.

(9)

A copy of the documents may be inspected at the Department of the Environment, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY.