Anglian Water Authority Act 1977
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1977 c. i |
| Year | 1977 |
Anglian Water Authority
Act
1977
c. i 1
ELIZABETH H
1977 CHAPTER i
An Act to provide for the development of certain rivers and
waterways for recreational purposes; to constitute the
Anglian Water Authority as the navigation authority
for such rivers and waterways and to provide for the
control of such rivers and waterways by the Authority;
to provide for the transfer to the Authority of the
undertaking of a navigation authority for the river
Stour; to empower the Authority to make further
discharges of water from the works constructed under
the Ely Ouse-Essex Water Act 1968 and for that
purpose to carry out works; to confer further powers
on the Authority in relation to the performance of
their functions; to extend to the area of the Authority
certain enactments in force in parts of that area; and
for other purposes. [17th March 1977]
W
HEREAS the Anglian Water Authority (hereinafter in this
Act referred to as " the Authority ") were constituted in
pursuance of the Water Act 1973 (hereinafter in this
1973
c. 37.
Act referred to as "the Act of 1973") as the authority
responsible for water conservation, the supply of water, land
drainage, prevention of pollution, the provision of public
sewerage and sewage disposal, water recreation and the manage-
ment and improvement of salmon, trout and freshwater fisheries
within an area which includes the counties of Cambridgeshire,
Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of the counties of
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Anglian Water Authority
Act
1977
Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Humber-
side,
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and
Oxfordshire and part of the London Borough of Havering:
And whereas there are within the area of the Authority a
number of navigable rivers and other waterways in respect of
which there are public rights of navigation:
And whereas for many years commercial navigation of these
rivers and waterways has been diminishing but the use thereof
for boating, angling and other forms of recreation has increased
and will continue to increase:
And whereas it would be of public and local advantage to
foster, improve and extend the use of these rivers and waterways
for recreational purposes:
And whereas the Authority are the navigation authority in
respect of some of the said rivers and waterways but there are no
authorities exercising effective control over the remainder of such
rivers and waterways:
And whereas it would be expedient for the Authority to have
improved powers of management and control in respect of those
rivers and waterways in respect of which they are the navigation
authority:
And whereas it would also be expedient for the Authority to
undertake responsibility for the management and control of
certain rivers and waterways in respect of which they are not at
present the navigation authority, and for provision to be made to
enable them to undertake such responsibility in respect of other
rivers and waterways suitable for use as recreational waterways,
and for those purposes to confer upon them additional powers
as in this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient to empower the Authority to
make discharges of water from the works constructed under the
1968 c. xxvi. powers of the Ely Ouse-Essex Water Act 1968 into a tributary
of the river Colne in the county of Essex to augment the yield of
the Ardleigh reservoir and to meet increasing demands for a
supply of water from consumers within the catchment area of
the said river, and for that purpose to carry out certain works:
And whereas to enable the Authority to discharge their
statutory functions with greater efficiency it is expedient that they
should be granted the other additional powers conferred upon
them by this Act and that certain statutory provisions in force
in parts of the area of the Authority should be extended so as to
apply to the whole of that area:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions in this
Act should be enacted:
And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected
without the authority of Parliament:
Anglian
Water Authority
Act
1977
c. i 3
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted,
and be it enacted, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.
This Act may be cited as the Anglian Water Authority Act Short title.
1977.
2.—(1) In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise Interpretation.
requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings
hereby assigned to them:—
" the Act of 1945 " means the Water Act 1945; 1945 c 42
" the Act of 1963 " means the Water Resources Act 1963; ^3 c 38
" the Act of
1972
" means the Local Government Act 1972;
1972
c. 70.
" the Act of 1973 " means the Water Act 1973;
1973
c. 37.
" the Act of 1976 " means the Land Drainage Act 1976;
1976
c.
70.
" the area of the Authority" means in relation to any
function of the Authority the area which is for the time
being the area of the Authority for the purposes of that
function;
" the Authority " means the Anglian Water Authority;
" the chief executive " means the chief executive of the
Authority and includes any person authorised to
exercise his functions;
" district" has the same meaning as in the Act of 1972;
" enactment" includes an enactment in this Act or in any
general or local Act and any order, byelaw or regulation
for the time being in force within the area of the
Authority;
" land " includes land covered with water and any interest
in or right over land;
" the Minister " means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Food;
"the Ministers" means the Secretary of State and the
Minister;
" Toppesfield Brook " means the ditch which is a tributary
of the river Colne and is known as Toppesfield Brook
in the parishes of Steeple Bumpstead, Finchingfield,
Stambourne and Toppesfield in the district of Braintree
in the county of Essex.
(2) In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise requires,
"navigation authority", "harbour authority" and "con-
servancy authority " have the same respective meanings as in
the Act of 1963.
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