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The Thames Water Authority (Amendment of Local Enactments) Order 1987

S.I. 1987/1233 · Made 14 July 1987

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WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 14th July 1987

Laid before Parliament 24th July 1987

Coming into force 14th August 1987

Whereas it appears to the Secretary of State for the Environment that section 3(2) of the River Wandle Protection Act 1908f1 is inconsistent both with section 23(1) of and an abstraction licence granted under the Water Resources Act 1963f2

Now, therefore, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 1(2)(c), 133(1), 134(3) and 135(1)f3 of that Act, now vested in himf4 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1908 c.cx.

f2

1963 c. 38.

f3

See the definition of “Minister”.

f4

S.I. 1970/1681.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Repeal of local enactments
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Thames Water Authority (Amendment of Local Enactments) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 14th August 1987.

(2)

The Thames Water Authority Orders 1974 to 1986 and this Order may be cited together as the Thames Water Authority Orders 1974 to 1987.

2Repeal of local enactments

(1)

Subsection (2) of section 3 of the River Wandle Protection Act 1908 (which conferred on the Croydon Corporationf1 the right to take water from Waddon Wells subject to a maximum of fifty thousand gallons in any period of 30 days) and the proviso to that section (which is now spent but which provided for a temporary increase in the maximum amount of water to be abstracted) are hereby repealed.

(2)

The Croydon Water Order 1968f2 (which amended section 3 by the addition of the proviso); the Croydon Water Order 1973f3 (which substituted a new proviso); the Thames Water Authority (Waddon Wells) Order 1976f4 (which amended that proviso) and the Thames Water Authority (Waddon Wells) Order 1981f5 (which further amended that proviso) are hereby revoked.

Signature

Nicholas Ridley,

Secretary of State for the Environment

14th July 1987

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The River Wandle Protection Act 1908 permitted the abstraction of water from boreholes known as Waddon Wells subject to a prohibition on abstracting more than 50 million gallons in any 30 days. Abstraction, which was then carried out by the Croydon Corporation, is now carried out by the Thames Water Authority under the terms of an abstraction licence granted under the Water Resources Act 1963. That licence, has been varied on a number of occasions with the result that it now permits the abstraction of up to 80 million gallons in any 30 day period until 1992.

This Order repeals those provisions of the 1908 Act which are inconsistent with section 23 of the 1963 Act and the provisions of the current licence. It also revokes local Orders, now spent, that have amended the 1908 Act.