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The Water Resources (Miscellaneous Revocations) (Wales) Order 2017

W.S.I. 2017/1026 · Made 24 October 2017

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Water, Wales

Water Resources, Wales

Made 24 October 2017

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 31 October 2017

Coming into force 1 January 2018

The Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 10(1) of the Water Act 2003f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2003 c. 37. Section 10(3) provides that the Assembly is the appropriate authority in relation to the revocation of an Order which relates to inland waters or underground strata wholly in Wales, and in relation to the Welsh part of inland waters or underground strata partly in England and partly in Wales. Those functions were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

Contents

  1. 1Title and commencement
  2. 2Revocation of Orders
  3. Signature
  4. Schedule
  5. 1Part 1
  6. 2Part 2
  7. Explanatory note

1Title and commencement

The title of this Order is the Water Resources (Miscellaneous Revocations) (Wales) Order 2017 and it comes into force on 1 January 2018.

2Revocation of Orders

(1)

The Orders in Part 1 of the Schedule are revokedf1.

(2)

The Orders in Part 2 of the Schedule are revoked in so far as they relate to inland waters or underground strata in Wales.

Signature

Lesley Griffiths

Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers

24 October 2017

1

  • The Gwynedd River Authority (Exceptions from Control) Order 1965f1

  • The South West Wales (Exceptions from Control) Order 1965f2

  • The Glamorgan River Authority (Exceptions from Control) Order 1966f3

  • The Usk River Authority (Exceptions from Control) Order 1973f4

2

  • The Dee and Clwyd River Authority (Exceptions from Control) Order 1966f1

  • The Severn River Authority (Exceptions from Control) Order 1967f2

  • The Mersey and Weaver River Authority (Exceptions from Control) Order 1968f3.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes Orders deemed to be made under section 33 of the Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57). Those Orders provide exemptions from the restrictions on abstraction of water in section 24 of that Act.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment (“RIA”) was produced in connection with the Water Act 2003 (c. 37). This RIA sets out the impacts of removing exemptions from the restriction on abstraction to which this Order relates. A further impact assessment was produced in respect of new authorisations for water abstraction in June 2017. Copies of the RIA and the impact assessment can be obtained from Water Policy Branch, Water, Waste, Resource Efficiency and Flood Division, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.