The Lee Valley and South Staffordshire (Pipelaying and Other Works) (Codes of Practice) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1294

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Lee Valley and South Staffordshire (Pipelaying and Other Works)(Codes of Practice) Order 1991

Made

21st May 1991

Whereas Lee Valley Water plc and the South Staffordshire WaterworksCompany each hold an appointment under Chapter I of Part II of the WaterAct 1989(1) as a water undertaker (“the Companies”):

And whereas each company has, pursuant to section 162(6)(a) of thatAct, submitted to the Secretary of State for his approval a Code ofPractice(2) with respect to the exercise by the Companies of powersconferred by or by virtue of paragraph 4 of Schedule 19 to that Act (“the Codes of Practice”):

And whereas the Secretary of State considers it appropriate toapprove the Codes of Practice for the purpose of promoting what appearto him to be desirable practices with regard to the exercise by theCompanies of those powers:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powersunder section 162(7) of the Water Act 1989, and of all other powersenabling him in that behalf, after consulting all such persons as heconsiders it appropriate to consult, hereby makes the following Order:

(1)

1989 c. 15.

(2)

Copies of the Codes of Practice may be inspected at theDepartment of the Environment, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, LondonSW1P 3PY, and may be obtained free of charge from the appropriatecompany: Lee Valley Water plc, PO Box 48, Bishop’s Rise, Hatfield,Hertfordshire AL10 9HL; the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company,Green Lane, Walsall WS2 7PD.