The Severn-Trent Water Authority (Lee Brockhurst Boreholes) Order 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/229
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Severn-Trent Water Authority (Lee Brockhurst Boreholes) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the 21st February 1989.

(2) This Order and the Severn-Trent Water Authority Orders 1974 to 1988 may be cited together as the Severn-Trent Water Authority Acts and Orders 1974 to 1989.

(3) In this Order –

“the Authority” means the Severn-Trent Water Authority;

“the deposited plan” means the plan prepared in duplicate, signed by an Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment and marked “Plan referred to in the Severn-Trent Water Authority (Lee Brockhurst Boreholes) Order 1989”, one duplicate of which is deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Authority and the other at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment;

“the Third Schedule” means the Third Schedule to the Water Act 1945;

“the undertaking” means the water undertaking of the Authority as for the time being authorised by any enactment.

Section 2 Power to construct, continue and maintain works

(1) The Authority may –

(a) continue and maintain on or under the land described in Schedule 1 to this Order the two existing boreholes;

(b) construct, continue and maintain (in addition to the works authorised by section 4 of the Third Schedule as applied to the undertaking by this Order) all such additional wells, boreholes, adits and headings as may be necessary or expedient for augmenting, improving or maintaining the supply of water obtainable by means of those boreholes.

(2) The works authorised by this Order shall for all purposes form part of the undertaking.

Section 3 Application of certain provisions of the Third Schedule

The provisions of the Third Schedule specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order shall apply to the undertaking, subject to the modifications set out in column (2) thereof.