Explanatory note

This order brings into force on 1st April 1985, provisions of the Reservoirs Act concerned with the setting up of registers of reservoirs and with the enforcement of the Act by local authorities. The enforcement provisions include the power of enforcement authorities to take emergency action where it appears to them that a reservoir is unsafe. Other provisions brought into force impose obligations on reservoir undertakers which include the duty to keep records and supply information and provide that failure to comply with the Act will constitute an offence unless there is reasonable excuse.

None of the provisions brought into force by this order come into force in England in the metropolitan counties or in Greater London. They affect any reservoirs which are partly situated in those areas, however, as if those reservoirs were wholly situated in non-metropolitan counties.