Explanatory note

These regulations prescribe matters in relation to sections 2, 3 and 11 of the Reservoirs Act 1975, which are to come into force on 1st April 1985 in the non-metropolitan counties in England and in Wales and Scotland.

Regulation 3 prescribes the information about large raised reservoirs which is to be given in the register that local authorities are required by section 2 to maintain and requires that the register is to be kept at their principal offices.

Regulation 4 specifies the information that is to be given in the reports required by section 3 to be made to the Secretary of State by local authorities as to the steps they have taken as enforcement authorities to secure that reservoir undertakers observe and comply with the requirements of the Act and, as undertakers to themselves observe and comply with the Act. A first report is to be made on 1st April 1987 and subsequent reports at intervals of two years.

Regulation 5 prescribes certain matters, additional to those mentioned in section 11 of the Act about which reservoir undertakers have to provide information in the record of large raised reservoirs to be kept by them. They specify the particular information to be recorded and the form in which the record is to be kept.