Explanatory note

This Order, which is made on the application of Sutton and East Surrey Water plc (“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 direction given by the Secretary of State to water undertakers generally on 18th April 1991 entitled the Drought Direction 1991. A copy of this direction 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.

The authorisation given by this Order ceases to have effect on 15th November 2006.