Paragraph 1 F1
Scotland
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any order made thereunder, any reference in any enactment, order, scheme, regulations, awards or byelaws passed or made before the coming into force of this Act—
in unspecified terms to a regional water board or the region of such a board (or any expression construed as such a reference by virtue 6 of paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the M1Water (Scotland) Act 1967) F2. . . shall be construed respectively as a reference to a water authority or to the limits of supply of such an authority . . .;
to a particular regional water board or the region of such a board (or any expression construed as aforesaid) shall be construed respectively as a reference to the water authority responsible for the water undertaking to which the enactment relates or to the limits of supply of such an authority.
If there is any doubt as to the identity of the water authority referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above, that authority shall be taken to be such authority as may be specified in a direction given by the Secretary of State.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Para. 1 substituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 30), Sch. 6 Pt. II para. 56(a)
- F2
Words in Sch. 17 para. 1(1)(a) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1)(2), Sch. 13 para. 92(73), Sch. 14; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)(d), Sch. 2
Marginal citations
- M1
Notes on Schedule 17
Editorial notes
- X1
The text of Schs. 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17(2)–(64), 18, 23, 24, 25, 27 Pt. II, 28, 29 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.