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11 Short title and commencement, etc.U.K.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Water Act 1983.

(2)Schedule 4 to this Act (which makes minor and consequential amendments) shall have effect.

(3)The enactments and instruments specified in Schedule 5 to this Act are hereby repealed or, as the case may be, revoked to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(4)The following provisions of this Act—

(a)sections 2 to 6;

(b)sections 9 and 10;

(c)this section, except subsections (2) and (3);

(d)Schedule 2;

(e)Schedule 3;

(f)paragraphs 8 and 9 of Schedule 4 and subsection (2) of this section so far as relating to those paragraphs; and

(g)the revocation by Schedule 5 of the M1Water Authorities and National Water Council (Limit on Borrowing) Order 1982 and subsection (3) of this section so far as relating to that revocation;

shall come into force on the passing of this Act.

(5)The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.

(6)An order under subsection (5) above appointing a day for the commencement of section 1 of this Act may make provision for the existing members of water authorities, other than the chairmen, to vacate office before that day; but no such provision shall be taken as preventing the reappointment of any such person under the provisions substituted by that section.

(7)The following provisions of this Act—

(a)section 1(2);

(b)section 3(1) and (3) to (5);

(c)this section;

(d)Part I of Schedule 2;

extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland and any repeal by Schedule 5 to this Act of an enactment which extends to Scotland or Northern Ireland has the same extent as that enactment, but otherwise this Act extends to England and Wales only.

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C1Power of appointment conferred by s. 11(5) partly exercised: S.I. 1983/1173, 1234

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