Land Drainage Act 1976

1 In the Water Act 1973—

(a) in section 36, for the words from " other statutory undertakers " onwards in subsection (3) substitute " and other statutory undertakers under any enactment, other than byelaws made by water authorities under section 34 of the Land Drainage Act 1976 (in respect of which Schedule 4 to that Act contains provisions corresponding to those in the said Part II) ";

(b) in section 38(1)—

(i) in the definition of "local land drainage committee " and " regional land drainage committee ", for the words from "established" onwards substitute " referred to by those names in sections 2 and 4 respectively of the Land Drainage Act 1976 " , and

(ii) in the definition of " local land drainage district" for " established under that Schedule " substitute " established or continued under section 4 of the Land Drainage Act 1976 " and for "Parts II and III of that Schedule" substitute " sections 45 to 49 of that Act (in accordance with section 89(2) of that Act) ";

(c) in paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 2, for " section 19(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1961 " substitute " section 17(2) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 ";

(d) in paragraph 12(1) of Schedule 2, for "paragraph 11(1) above " substitute " section 9(5) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 ";

(e) in paragraph 31(2) of Schedule 3—

(i) for " Part II of Schedule 5 to this Act" in paragraph (a) substitute " sections 45 to 49 of the Land Drainage Act 1976 ",

(ii) for "section 21(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1930 " in paragraph (b) substitute " section 84(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 " , and

(iii) for " section 3 of the Land Drainage Act 1961 " in paragraph (c) substitute " section 50 of the Land Drainage Act 1976 ";

(f) in paragraph 31(3) of Schedule 3, for " section 21(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1961 " substitute " section 86(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 ", for " section 21(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1930 " substitute " section 84(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 " and for " section 21(1) of the said Act of 1930" substitute " section 84(1) of the said Act of 1976 ";

(g) in paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 7, omit the words from " and to internal drainage boards " onwards.