Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 268
WATER INDUSTRY, ENGLAND & WALES
The Water and Sewerage Undertakers (Inset Appointments) Regulations 2005
Made
9th February 2005
Laid before Parliament
10th February 2005
Coming into force
1st April 2005
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 7(6) and 158(10) of the Water Industry Act 1991( 1 ), having consulted the Director General of Water Services, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Water and Sewerage Undertakers (Inset Appointments) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.
Amendment of the Water Industry Act 1991
2. —(1)The Water Industry Act 1991( 2 ) is amended as follows.
(2) In section 7(5)(a)(ii) (continuity of appointments, replacement appointments etc. ), “50 megalitres” is substituted for “100 megalitres”.
(3) In section 158(9)(b) (powers to lay pipes in streets), “50 megalitres” is substituted for “100 megalitres”.
Elliot Morley
Minister of State,
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
9th February 2005
1991 c. 56 ; sections 7(6) and 158(10) were inserted by section 40(2) and (6) of the Competition and Service Utilities Act 1992 (c. 43) . The functions of the Secretary of State under section 7(6) and 158(10) are, so far as exercisable in relation to a water or sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1991 (S.I. 1999/672 ); see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Water Industry Act 1991 as substituted by paragraph (e) of Schedule 3 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/253 ) and amended by article 4 of and Schedule 2 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3044 ). This entry was also amended by section 100(2) of the Water Act 2003 (c. 37) but not so as to affect sections 7(6) or 158(10).
Sections 7(5) and 158(9) were amended by regulation 2 of the Water and Sewerage Undertakers (Inset Appointments) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1842 ).