Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 1233

The Thames Water Authority (Amendment of Local Enactments) Order 1987

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1987 No. 1233

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Thames Water Authority (Amendment of Local Enactments) Order 1987

Whereas it appears to the Secretary of State for the Environment that section 3(2) of the River Wandle Protection Act 1908^[1] is inconsistent both with section 23(1) of and an abstraction licence granted under the Water Resources Act 1963^[2]

Now, therefore, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 1(2)(c), 133(1), 134(3) and 135(1)^[3] of that Act, now vested in him^[4] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
    1.—(1)   This Order may be cited as the Thames Water Authority (Amendment of Local Enactments) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 14th August 1987.

    (2)  The Thames Water Authority Orders 1974 to 1986 and this Order may be cited together as the Thames Water Authority Orders 1974 to 1987.

Repeal of local enactments
    2.—(1)  Subsection (2) of section 3 of the River Wandle Protection Act 1908 (which conferred on the Croydon Corporation^[5] the right to take water from Waddon Wells subject to a maximum of fifty thousand gallons in any period of 30 days) and the proviso to that section (which is now spent but which provided for a temporary increase in the maximum amount of water to be abstracted) are hereby repealed.

    (2)  The Croydon Water Order 1968^[6] (which amended section 3 by the addition of the proviso); the Croydon Water Order 1973^[7] (which substituted a new proviso); the Thames Water Authority (Waddon Wells) Order 1976^[8] (which amended that proviso) and the Thames Water Authority (Waddon Wells) Order 1981^[9] (which further amended that proviso) are hereby revoked.

Nicholas Ridley,

Secretary of State for the Environment

14th July 1987

The River Wandle Protection Act 1908 permitted the abstraction of water from boreholes known as Waddon Wells subject to a prohibition on abstracting more than 50 million gallons in any 30 days. Abstraction, which was then carried out by the Croydon Corporation, is now carried out by the Thames Water Authority under the terms of an abstraction licence granted under the Water Resources Act 1963. That licence, has been varied on a number of occasions with the result that it now permits the abstraction of up to 80 million gallons in any 30 day period until 1992.

This Order repeals those provisions of the 1908 Act which are inconsistent with section 23 of the 1963 Act and the provisions of the current licence. It also revokes local Orders, now spent, that have amended the 1908 Act.

[1] 1908 c.cx. back

[2] 1963 c. 38. back

[3] See the definition of "Minister" . back

[4] S.I. 1970/1681. back

[5] The Thames Water Authority succeeded to the rights and obligations conferred on the Croydon Corporation by the 1908 Act by virtue of the provisions of Part II of Schedule 6 to the Water Act 1973 (c. 37). back

[6] S.I. 1968/1669. back

[7] S.I. 1973/1664. back

[8] S.I. 1976/608. back

[9] S.I. 1981/317. back