Avon Weir Act 1992

37 Commencement of Part V

(1) The provisions of this Part shall come into operation on such day or days, not earlier than the commencement of impoundment by means of the weir, as may be fixed for the purpose in accordance with subsections (2) and (3) below by resolution of the Corporation, and different days may be fixed for different provisions of this Part and for different parts of the impounded river.

(2) The Corporation shall not without the consent of the port authority pass a resolution under this section as respects any part of the impounded river outwith the urban development area.

(3) The Corporation shall publish in a newspaper circulating in the city notice—

(a) of the passing of each resolution under this section and of the day fixed thereby; and

(b) of the general effect of the resolution and of the provisions of this Part to which it relates;

and the day so fixed shall not be earlier than the expiration of 28 days from the date of publication of the notice.

(4) A photostatic or other reproduction certified by an officer of the Corporation designated by it for the purposes of this subsection to be a true reproduction of a page, or part of a page, of any newspaper, being a page or part of a page bearing the date of its publication and containing the notice mentioned in subsection (3) above, shall be evidence of the publication of the notice and of the date of publication.