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The Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007

S.I. 2007/1021 · Made 23 March 2007 · Extends to England and Wales

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WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 23rd March 2007

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 104(6)(a) and 105(3) to (6) of the Water Act 2003f1 and having consulted the National Assembly for Walesf2:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2003 c. 37.

f2

The power in section 105(3) to appoint a day on which provisions of the Water Act 2003 shall come into force is vested in the “appropriate authority”. The appropriate authority in relation to the provisions of that Act for which a day is appointed by this Order is the Secretary of State after consulting “the Assembly” (the National Assembly for Wales: see section 105(2)).

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Provisions coming into force on 1st April 2007
  3. 3Transitional provisions
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007.

2Provisions coming into force on 1st April 2007

The following provisions of the Water Act 2003 come into force on 1st April 2007—

(a)

section 62 (water resources management plans) for all remaining purposes;

(b)

section 98 (schemes for the adoption of sewers, lateral drains and sewage disposal works);

(c)

in section 100 (devolution: Wales), subsections (2), (3), (6) and (7) for all remaining purposes; and

(d)

in section 101 (minor and consequential amendments and repeals), subsection (1) in so far as it relates to amendments made by paragraph 39 of Schedule 7.

3Transitional provisions

(1)

The following provisions are revoked—

(a)

paragraph 5 (effect of certain provisions in relation to references to the Competition Commission) of the Schedule to the Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 2, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2004f1;

(b)

paragraphs 5 (effect of certain water supply licensing provisions), 6 (effect of provisions in relation to water resources management plans) and 7 (devolution: Wales) of the Schedule to the Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2005f2; and

(c)

paragraphs 8 (effect of provisions in relation to water resources management plans) and 9 (devolution: Wales) of the Schedule to the Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 6, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2006f3.

(2)

Paragraph (1) comes into force on 1st April 2007.

Signature

Ian Pearson

Minister of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

23rd March 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st April 2007 in England and Wales certain provisions of the Water Act 2003 (“the Act”) and makes certain transitional provisions.

This Order gives full effect to the provisions of Part 2 of the Act in relation to the new regulatory arrangements for the water industry and the new water supply licensing regime. This completes the implementation of Part 2 of the Act.

The provisions of Part 3 of the Act brought into force by this Order require water undertakers to prepare and maintain water resources management plans. They also make provision for schemes for the adoption of sewers, lateral drains and sewage disposal works.