The Eastbourne, Newcastle and Gateshead and North Surrey (Pipelaying and Other Works)(Codes of Practice) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 368

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Eastbourne, Newcastle and Gateshead and North Surrey (Pipelaying and Other Works)(Codes of Practice) Order 1991

Made

21st February 1991

Whereas Eastbourne Water Company, Newcastle and Gateshead Water plc and North Surrey Water Company each hold an appointment under Chapter I of Part II of the Water Act 1989(1) as a water undertaker (“the Companies”):

And whereas each company has, pursuant to section 162(6)(a) of that Act, submitted to the Secretary of State for his approval a Code of Practice(2) with respect to the exercise by the Companies of powers conferred 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 to approve the Codes of Practice for the purpose of promoting what appear to him to be desirable practices with regard to the exercise by the Companies of those powers:

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

Citation

1.  This Order may be cted as the Eastbourne, Newcastle and Gateshead and North Surrey (Pipelaying and Other Works) (Codes of Practice) Order 1991.

Codes of Practice

2.  The Codes of Practice prepared by the Companies and certified as such by the Secretary of State are hereby approved.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment

Dinah Nichols

An Under Secretary in the

Department of the Enviroment

21st February 1991

(1)

1989 c. 15.

(2)

Copies of the Codes of Practice may be inspected at the Department of the Enviroment, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY, and may be obtained free of charge from the appropriate company: Eastbourne Water Company, 14 Upperton Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 1EP: Newcastle and Gateshead Water plc, PO Box No 10, Allendale Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 2SW: North Surrey Water Company, Millis House, The Causeway, Staines, Middlesex TW18 3BX.