Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 46

The Thames Water Authority (Repeal of Local Enactments) Order 1988

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1988 No. 46

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Thames Water Authority (Repeal of Local Enactments) Order 1988

Whereas it appears to the Secretary of State for the Environment that the local enactments specified in the Schedule to this Order are inconsistent with section 23(1) of, and an abstraction licence granted under, the Water Resources Act 1963^[1] :

Now therefore the Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 1(2)(c)^[2] , 133(1) and 135(1)^[3] of the Water Resources Act 1963 and now vested in him ^[4] , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
    1.—(1)  This Order may be cited as the Thames Water Authority (Repeal of Local Enactments) Order 1988 and shall come into force on the 17th February 1988.

    (2)  This Order and the Thames Water Authority Acts and Orders 1974 to 1987 may be cited together as the Thames Water Authority Acts and Orders 1974 to 1988.

Repeal of local enactments
    2.    The enactments specified in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order (which enable the Thames Water Authority (as the successor to the Metropolitan Water Board^[5] ) to abstract defined quantities of water from the River Thames between Windsor and Teddington Weir) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column (2) thereof.

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

14th January 1988

[1] 1963 c. 38. back

[2] See the definition of "Minister" as substituted by S.I. 1965/319 and 1970/1681. back

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

[4] S.I. 1970/1681. back

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

Explanatory Note