The Three Valleys, Rickmansworth and Colne Valley Water (Amendment of Local Enactments etc.) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 977

WATER INDUSTRY, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Three Valleys, Rickmansworth and Colne Valley Water (Amendment of Local Enactments etc.) Order 1994

Made

29th March 1994

Coming into force

31st March 1994

Whereas provision is made in relation to Rickmansworth Water Limited “Rickmansworth”), Colne Valley Water Limited (“Colne Valley”) and Lee Valley Water Limited (“Lee Valley”) in local statutory provisions;

And whereas with effect from 31st March 1994 Lee Valley has been re–registered and renamed Three Valleys Water plc (“Three Valleys”);

And whereas with effect from that date the Director General of Water Services has made a variation under section 8 of the Water Industry Act 1991(1) (“the Act”) replacing Rickmansworth and Colne Valley as water undertakers;

And whereas by virtue of that variation Three Valleys will hold an appointment as the water undertaker for the whole area for which Rickmansworth and Colne Valley hold appointments as water undertakers;

And whereas with effect from 31st March 1994 Rickmansworth and Colne Valley will transfer properties, rights and liabilities to Three Valleys by transfer schemes under Schedule 2 to the Act;

And whereas it appears to the Secretary of State appropriate for the purposes of the above–mentioned variation and transfer schemes that provision be made corresponding to provisions originally made by Schedule 26 to the Water Act 1989(2) and that local statutory provisions relating to Rickmansworth and Colne Valley be amended or repealed;

Now therefore the Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Three Valleys, Rickmansworth and Colne Valley Water (Amendment of Local Enactments etc.) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 31st March 1994.

Amendment of references in local statutory provisions etc.

2.—(1) As from 31st March 1994 any reference to, or to the undertaking of, Rickmansworth and Colne Valley in any local statutory provision and in any charges scheme made by Rickmansworth and Colne Valley under section 76 of the Water Act 1989 or section 143 of the Water Industry Act 1991 shall have effect, subject to paragraph (2) below, as a reference to Three Valleys or, as the case may be, to the undertaking of Three Valleys.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall only apply to any local statutory provision or charges scheme in relation to the area, things or persons in relation to which or to whom that provision or scheme has effect before 31st March 1994.

Repeal of local statutory provisions

3.  The local statutory provisions referred to in the Schedule to this Order are repealed to the extent indicated in that Schedule with effect from 31st March 1994.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

N. W. Summerton

An Under Secretary in the

Department of the Environment

29th March 1994

SCHEDULE

PART I PROVISIONS OF ENACTMENTS REPEALED

Title	Reference	Provisions
The Colne Valley Water Act 1939.	1939 c.lxxviii.	Section 104.
The Colne Valley Water Act 1945.	1945 c.viii.	In section 6(2), the words from “subject to the condition that” to the end of the subsection.
		In section 7(b), the words from “subject to the condition that” to the end of the section.

PART II PROVISIONS OF ORDERS REPEALED

Title	Reference	Provisions
The Three Valleys Water Order 1970.	S.I. 1970/1790.	Sections 16 to 24 and 26.
		Schedule 2.
The Three Valleys Water Order 1984.	S.I. 1984/785.	Section 3(2).

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends references in local statutory provisions and charges schemes for the purposes of the replacement of Rickmansworth and Colne Valley Water Companies as water undertakers by Three Valleys Water plc.

(1)

1991 c. 56.

(2)

1989 c. 15.