Introductory text
Water Industry
Water Resources
Made 26th January 2016
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 28th January 2016
Coming into force 1st April 2016
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 94(3) and (6) of, and Schedule 12 to, the Water Act 2014f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Annotations
Footnotes
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2014 c.21 (“the Act”). The power in section 94(3) of the Act to appoint a day on which the remaining provisions of the Act shall come into force is vested in the “appropriate authority”. Section 94(6) of the Act states that the appropriate authority is the Secretary of State except as otherwise stated in the table in Schedule 12 to the Act. In accordance with that table the appropriate authority in relation to section 7 of the Act is the Scottish Ministers.