Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 477

The Water and Sewerage (Conservation, Access and Recreation) (Code of Practice) Order 2000

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Approval of Code of Practice
     2. The Code of Practice on Conservation, Access and Recreation, which was issued jointly by the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on 22nd February 2000 for the purposes of - 

(a) giving practical guidance to relevant water undertakers and sewerage undertakers with respect to matters for the purposes of which sections 3 and 4 of the Water Industry Act 1991 have effect;

(b) promoting what appear to the Secretary of State to be desirable practices by such undertakers with respect to those matters;

(c) giving practical guidance to the Environment Agency with respect to matters for the purposes of which sections 6(1), 7 and 8 of the Environment Act 1995 have effect; and

(d) promoting what appear to the Secretary of State and the Minister to be desirable practices by the Environment Agency with respect to those matters,

     is hereby approved - 


(i) so far as the Code is issued for the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b), under section 5 of the Water Industry Act 1991;

(ii) so far as the Code is issued for the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (c) and (d), under section 9 of the Environment Act 1995.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for theEnvironment, Transport and the Regions


Chris Mullin
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

22nd February 2000


E. A. Morley
Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

23rd February 2000

[2] 1995 c. 25; section 9(3) was amended by the Development Commission (Transfer of Functions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/416), Schedule 1 paragraph 17(2). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back