Water (Scotland) Act 1967

General Adaptation of Statutory Provisions

2 Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, all enactments, orders, schemes, regulations, awards and byelaws passed or made before the second appointed day, whether before or after the passing of this Act, shall have effect subject to the following adaptations—

(a) general references to a local water authority or to the limits of supply or to the area or district of such an authority shall be construed respectively as references to a regional water board or the region of such a board ;

(b) any such general references as aforesaid in any of the following provisions of the Water (Scotland) Acts 1946 and 1949, that is to say.—

(i) sections 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 38, 44, 50, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 72, 78, and 84(3), of, and Schedule 1 and Part I of Schedule 3 to the [1946 c. 42.] Water (Scotland) Act 1946, and

(ii) sections 23 and 24 of, and Schedule 1 to, the [1949 c. 31.] Water (Scotland) Act 1949,

shall be construed as including a reference to a water development board or the area of such a board ;

(c) any general reference in sections 1, 24 and 43 of, and Schedule 1 to, the said Act of 1946 and in section 31 of the said Act of 1949 to a local authority or their district, in relation to a supply of water, shall be construed as a reference to a regional water board or their region;

(d) any such general reference as aforesaid in the said sections and the said Schedule shall be construed as including a reference to a water development board or the area of such a board;

(e) any reference in the Water (Scotland) Acts 1946 and 1949 to a supply of water shall, in relation to a water development board, be construed as a reference to a supply of water in bulk to one or more regional water boards or to another water development board, and the expression " consumer " shall be construed accordingly;

(f) references to a particular local water authority or to the limits of supply of a particular local water authority shall be construed as references to the appropriate regional water board or the appropriate region of such a board, as the case maybe.

3 In the foregoing paragraph " appropriate regional water board " in relation to a local water authority means the regional water board in relation to which the limits of supply of that authority are specified in the third column of Schedule 1 to this Act, and " the appropriate region " shall be construed accordingly.

4 The provisions of sub-paragraph (f) of paragraph 2 of this Schedule shall apply in relation to the Central Board and their area as they apply to a regional water board and their region subject to the following modifications—

(a) for any reference to a local water authority there shall be substituted a reference to a joint water board whose functions are transferred to the Central Board under this Act; and

(b) for any reference to the appropriate regional water board or to the appropriate region of such a board there shall be substituted a reference to the Central Board and to their area.