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  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/37",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1973",
  "path": "schedule/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": "REPEALS",
  "text": "Chapter\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\n13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 16.\nThe Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1923.\nIn section 6, the words “in any fishery district”.\nIn section 17(1), the words “in any fishery district”.\nSection 37.\nIn section 38(1), in paragraph (a) the words “of the fishery district” and paragraphs (b), (c), (g), (h) and (i).\nSection 41.\nSections 43 to 53.\nIn section 54, in subsection (1) paragraph (a), subsection (2), and in subsection (3) paragraph (c).\nSections 56 to 58.\nSection 60.\nSection 66.\nIn section 67(4), the words from “purporting” to “Act” in the first place where it occurs.\nSection 81.\nIn section 92(1), the definitions of the “fishery board” and “chairman”.\nSchedule 3.\n20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 44.\nThe Land Drainage Act 1930.\nIn section 1, subsection (4) the words from the beginning to “constituted, and”.\nSection 2.\nSection 3.\nSection 5.\nIn section 7(1), the words from “shall” to “and” where it first occurs.\nIn section 8(2), in paragraph (c) the words from “submitted” to the end of the paragraph.\nSection 12.\nSection 15.\nSections 17 to 20.\nSection 22(2).\nIn section 33(4), paragraph (a).\nSection 46(6).\nIn section 47, subsections (2) to (7).\nSection 49(3).\nIn section 50, subsection (1), in subsection (2) the words from “(whether” to “area)”, and subsections (3) and (4).\nSection 73.\nSections 79 and 80.\nSchedule 1.\n26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 49.\nThe Public Health Act 1936.\nSection 14.\nSection 16.\nIn section 20(2), the proviso.\nSection 28.\nSection 35.\nIn section 41(1), the words from the beginning to “this Act”.\nIn section 90(1), the definition of sewerage authority.\nSections 111 to 122.\nSection 124(3).\nSection 125(3).\nSections 126 to 136.\nIn sections 137(1) and 138(1) and (5), the words “the local authority or other”, wherever occurring.\nIn section 142, in the definition of “statutory water undertakers”, the words from “either” to “(b)”.\nSection 310.\n1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6 c. 40.\nThe Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act 1937.\nSection 4(4).\nSection 12(2).\n7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 26.\nThe Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944.\nSection 1(6).\nSection 2.\nSection 4.\n8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 42.\nThe Water Act 1945.\nSections 1 to 5.\nSection 8.\nSection 9(4).\nSection 11.\nSection 15(3).\nIn section 19, in subsection (1), the words from “and the” to the end of the subsection, subsection (6)(b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it and subsection (7).\nIn section 23(1), paragraph (ii) of the proviso, and the words from “A consent required” to the end of the subsection.\nIn section 24(4), the words “local authority or”.\nSection 28.\nIn section 32, in subsection (1) the words “or section forty”, in subsection (2) the words “supplying water under a local enactment” and the proviso, and subsections (4) and (5).\nSection 33(3).\nIn section 34, in subsection (2) the words “board or” and in subsection (4) the word “boards”.\nSection 35(3).\nIn section 38, in subsection (1) the words from “whether” to “enactment”, and subsections (6) and (7).\nSection 40.\nIn section 46, the words from “or”, in the third place where it occurs, to the end.\nIn section 55(1)(a)(ii) the words “the water engineer or manager of the water department or”.\nIn section 59(1), the definitions of “catchment board” and “catchment area”, “fishery board” and “fishery district” and “joint water board”, in the definition of “limits of supply” the words from “so” to the end of the definition, and the definitions of “rivers board” and “statutory water undertakers”.\nIn Schedule 1, in paragraph 16, the words “board or”, and Parts III, IV and V.\nIn Schedule 2, in paragraphs 3, 5, 6 and 7 the words “local authority or” wherever occurring.\nIn Schedule 3, in section 1(1), the definitions of “catchment board” and “catchment area”, “fishery board” and “fishery district” and “rivers board”, section 46(1), sections 47 to 51, and in section 78, paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (1), and subsection (2).\nIn Schedule 4, the whole Schedule with the exceptionof the provisions amending sections 275 and 279 of the Public Health Act 1936.\n11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 22.\nThe Water Act 1948.\nSection 1.\nIn section 2, subsections (1)(b) and (4).\nIn section 4, subsections (2), (3) and (4).\nIn section 8, in subsection (1), the words “local authority or” and in the proviso the words “authority or”; in subsection (2), the words “local authority or” and “authority or” ; in subsection (4), the words “local authority or” in the first place where they occur and “that local authority or”; and in subsection (5) the words “local authority or”.\nSection 12.\nSection 13.\n14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 64.\nThe Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951.\nSection 1(1)(b).\nIn section 7, subsection (9) and the proviso to subsection (16).\nSection 9.\nIn section 11(1), the definitions of “excluded area” and “local authority”.\nIn Schedule 2, paragraphs 5, 6, 8 and 10.\n15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 54.\nThe Town Development Act 1954.\nIn section 2, in subsection (2)(d), the words “main water supplies”.\nSection 8(4).\nSection 9(3).\nSection 15.\n6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 67.\nThe Water Act 1958.\nSection 4(2).\n7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 25.\nThe Highways Act 1959.\nSection 295(6).\n8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 54.\nThe Clean Rivers (Esturies and Tidal Waters) Act 1960.\nSection 1(6)(c).\n9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 29.\nThe Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1961.\nThe whole Act.\n9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 48.\nThe Land Drainage Act 1961.\nSection 3(6).\nIn section 34, in subsection (6), the words from “or” to the end of the subsection, and in subsection (10) the words “or, as the case may be, the Minister,”.\nSection 50.\nIn Schedule 1, paragraphs 4, 20(4) and 24.\n9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 50.\nThe Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1961.\nIn section 13(2), the words from “and in sub-paragraph (2)” onwards.\n9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 57.\nThe Public Health Act 1961.\nSection 15.\nSection 65.\n1963 c. 33.\nThe London Government Act 1963.\nSections 35 and 36.\nIn section 37, subsections (1), (3) and (4).\nSections 38 and 39.\nIn Schedule 9, Part I ; in Part II, paragraphs 1 to 4, 7 to 10, 12 to 16 and 19 ; in Part III, paragraphs 4(3), 5, 7, 8 and 10 to 12.\nSchedule 10.\nIn Schedule 14, paragraphs 5, 6 and 9 ; in paragraph 10, the words from “and the transitional” to the end of the paragraph ; and in paragraph 15(3), the words from “except” in the definition of “watercourse” to the word “tides”, in the last place where it occurs.\n1963 c. 38.\nThe Water Resources Act 1963.\nSection 1(1).\nIn section 3, subsections (1) to (4), (6) and (7).\nSections 4 to 15.\nSection 16(1).\nSection 18.\nSection 19(2).\nIn section 21, subsections (1) and (2) ; in subsection (3), the words “and the Water Resources Board”; and in subsection (4), the words from “draft” to “and to”.\nIn section 22(3), the words from “the Water Resources Board” to “ or”, and the words “the Board or” and “as the case may be”.\nIn section 25, subsection (4) and in paragraph (a) of subsection (7), the words “and the Water Resources Board”.\nIn section 32(5), the words from “or is” to “1936”, the words “sold or leased” and the words “and, in the case of a lease, for the period of the lease”.\nSection 33(3).\nIn section 48(1), the words “and of section 103 thereof”.\nSections 57 to 59.\nSections 61 and 62.\nIn section 63(1), the words from “either” to “authority”, in the first place where that word occurs.\nIn section 64, subsection (1) and in subsection (2) the words from the beginning to “subsection”.\nSection 69(2).\nSection 76(3).\nSection 80.\nIn section 81(2), the words “and after prior consultation with the Water Resources Board”.\nIn section 82(1), in paragraph (c) the words from “and” to the end of the paragraph and in paragraph (d) the words from “and”, where it secondly occurs, to the end of the paragraph.\nSections 83 to 87.\nSections 88(2).\nSections 89 and 90.\nSections 92 and 93.\nPart IX.\nSections 101 to 104.\nSection 107(3).\nIn section 108, in subsection (1), the words from “either” to “otherwise” and in subsection (4) the words “to the Water Resources Board or”.\nSection 110.\nSection 119.\nSection 121.\nIn section 123(1)(a), the words from “other” to “Board”.\nSection 124.\nSection 125.\nIn section 126(1), paragraph (a) of the proviso.\nSection 127.\nSection 129.\nIn section 131, in subsection (6) the words “notwithstanding anything in section 58 of this Act” and “under any charging scheme”, and in subsection (7) the words “under a charging scheme”.\nIn section 135, in subsection (1) the definitions of “additional members”, “charging scheme”, “constituent council”, “first appointed day”, “functions” and “statutory water undertakers”.\nSection 136, except subsection (4).\nSchedules 1 to 6.\nIn Schedule 7, paragraph 14.\nSchedules 11 to 14.\n1965 c. 4.\nThe Science and Technology Act 1965.\nIn Schedule 2, the entry relating to the Water Resources Act 1963.\n1965 c. 56.\nThe Compulsory Purchase Act 1965.\nIn section 33(1)(b), the words from “that”, in the second place where it occurs, to the end of the paragraph, in subsection (2)(b) the words “a local authority within the meaning of the Act of 1946, or” and in subsection (4) the words “ a local authority within the meaning of the Act of 1946 or”.\n1967 c. 78.\nThe Water (Scotland) Act 1967.\nIn section 36(2), the words “(except paragraph 16 of Schedule 2)”.\nIn Schedule 2, paragraph 16.\n1968 c. 34.\nThe Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968.\nSection 22.\nSection 27(6).\nSection 28.\nSection 50(2).\n1968 c. 41.\nThe Countryside Act 1968.\nSection 22(1).\nIn section 49(2), the definitions of “river authority” and “statutory water undertakers”.\n1968 c. 73.\nThe Transport Act 1968.\nSection 115(4).\n1969 c. 19.\nThe Decimal Currency Act 1969.\nIn Schedule 2, paragraph 30.\n1970 c. 40.\nThe Agriculture Act 1970.\nIn section 88, subsections (2) and (3).\nIn section 89, in subsection (4) the words “the Isle of Wight Authority, the Conservators, the Catchment Board”.\nSection 90(2).\n1971 c. 34.\nThe Water Resources Act 1971.\nIn section 2(2), the words from “and”, where secondly occurring, to the end of the subsection.\n1972 c. 21.\nThe Deposit of Poisonous Waste Act 1972.\nIn section 7, the words from “and any” to the end of the section.\n1972 c. 37.\nThe Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1972.\nSection 11(3).\nIn section 15(3), the words from “and”, in the second place where it occurs, to the end.\n1972 c. 70.\nThe Local Government Act 1972.\nSection 177(1)(b).\nIn section 181, subsections (3) to (8).\nIn section 262(13), the word “water”, in the second place where it occurs.\nIn Schedule 29, paragraph 24(1) and (4).",
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      "text": "The text of Sch. 9 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
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