Environment Act 1995

The Water (Scotland) Act 1980

34 (1) The [1980 c. 45.] Water (Scotland) Act 1980 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) In section 31(1) (consultation where limits of water supply adjoin any part of England) for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—

“(b) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.”

(3) In section 33(3)(a) (notice of temporary discharge of water into watercourses)—

(a) sub-paragraph (ii) and the preceding “and” shall cease to have effect ; and

(b) at the end of the paragraph there shall be inserted— “and

(ii) to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.”

(4) In section 109(1) (interpretation) the definitions of “river purification authority” and “river purification board” shall cease to have effect.

(5) In Schedule 1—

(a) in paragraph 2(ii) for the words following “section 17(2)” to the end there shall be substituted the words “ on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”;

(b) in paragraph 11(ii) the words “and any river purification authority” shall cease to have effect and at the end there shall be added the words “and on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”;

(c) in paragraph 19 for the words following “any fishery district” to the words “any public undertakers” there shall be substituted the words “any navigation authority exercising jurisdiction in relation to any watercourse from which water is proposed to be taken under the rights to be acquired, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and any public undertakers”.