1987 No. 2007
WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Thames Water Authority (Gatehampton Farm Boreholes) Order 1987
Made 20th November 1987
Coming into force 1st December 1987

The Secretary of State for the Environment, on the application of the Thames Water Authority, being statutory water undertakers, and in exercise of powers conferred by sections 23, 32(1) and 59(1) of the Water Act 1945 and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
See the Water Act 1973 (c. 37), section 11(6).
See the definition of “Minister”.
1945 c. 42. There are amendments to sections 23 and 32, but none relevant to this Order.
S.I.1951/142, 1900, 1970/1681.

1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 This Order may be cited as the Thames Water Authority (Gatehampton Farm Boreholes) Order 1987 and shall come into force on the 1st December 1987.
2 This Order shall be included among the enactments which may be cited together as the Thames Water Authority Orders 1974 to 1987.
3 In this Order—
“the Authority” means the Thames Water Authority;
“the Third Schedule” means the Third Schedule to the Water Act 1945;
“the undertaking” means the water undertaking of the Authority as for the time being authorised by any enactment.

2 Power to construct, continue and maintain works
The Authority may, when they have acquired the necessary land or sufficient rights therein—
(a) continue and maintain on or under the land described in Schedule 1 to this Order the three existing boreholes each 30" (750mm) in diameter;
(b) construct, continue and maintain on or under that land four new boreholes each 30" (750mm) in diameter and a control building and (in addition to the works authorised by section 4 of the Third Schedule as applied to the undertaking by this Order) may construct, continue and maintain on or under that land all such additional wells, boreholes, adits and headings as may be necessary or expedient for augmenting, improving or maintaining the supply of water obtainable by means of the said boreholes.

3 Works to form part of the undertaking
The works authorised by this Order shall for all purposes form part of the undertaking.

4 Application of certain provisions of the Third Schedule
The provisions of the Third Schedule specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order shall, subject to the modification set out in column (2) thereof, apply to the undertaking and are hereby incorporated with this Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.
J. A. L. Gunn An Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment 20th November 1987

SCHEDULE 1 DESCRIPTION OF LAND
Land at Gatehampton Farm in the Parish of Goring-on-Thames in the County of Oxfordshire comprising 10 parcels of land totalling 1 acre or thereabouts being part of enclosures numbered 3000, 1300, 0075, 3057 and 4370 on the 1/2500 Ordnance Survey Plan sheets SU 5979 (1979), SU 6080 (1968) and SU 6079 (1966) at National Grid references SU 5995 7987, SU 6005 7978, SU 6015 7970, SU 6024 7962, SU 6049 7973, SU 6041 7994 and SU 6012 8007.

SCHEDULE 2 PROVISIONS OF THE THIRD SCHEDULE APPLIED
(1)Provisions applied	(2)Modifications
Section 4 (General power to construct subsidiary works)	(i) the words “and to any other provisions of the special Act limiting the powers of the undertakers to abstract water” shall be omitted. (ii) for the words “any land for the time being held by them in connection with their water undertaking” there shall be substituted the words “the land described in Schedule 1 to the special Act”.
Section 94 (copies of special Act to be kept by undertakers in their office, and deposited with certain officers).	In subsection (1), for the words from “with the clerk of the council” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words “with the council of every county and district affected by the special Act.”.
Section 94(1) was amended by S.I.1986/1.