Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1021 (C. 42)

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

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

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 2003( 1 ) and having consulted the National Assembly for Wales( 2 ):

Citation

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

Provisions coming into force on 1st April 2007

2. 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);

(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.

Transitional provisions

3. —(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 2004( 3 );

(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 2005( 4 ); 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 2006( 5 ).

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

Ian Pearson

Minister of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

23rd March 2007

( 1 )

2003 c. 37 .

( 2 )

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)).

( 3 )

S.I. 2004/2528 (C.106) , amended by S.I. 2005/968 (C.43) .

( 4 )

S.I. 2005/2714 (C.109) .

( 5 )

S.I. 2006/984 (C.30) .

( 6 )

2006 c. 16 .

( 7 )

S.I. 2006/2541 (C.86) .