Explanatory note

This Order, which is made on the application of Mid Kent Water Limited (“the Company”), makes provision to meet a serious deficiency of supplies of water which is threatened in its area of supply as a result of an exceptional shortage of rain.

It authorises the Company to prohibit or limit the use of water supplied by it for certain purposes, being purposes set out in the Drought Direction 1991, other than the use of water for the purposes of filling ornamental ponds that are wildlife garden ponds.

The authorisation given by this Order ceases to have effect on 25th November 2006.

A copy of the Drought Direction, which was given by the Secretary of State to water undertakers generally on 18th April 1991, can be obtained from Water Supply & Regulation Division, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Room 304, 55 Whitehall c/o 3-8 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HH.