2In section 10(1), at the end of the definition of " undertakers " there shall be added the words " or, in the case of a reservoir managed and operated by a river authority but not owned or leased by them, that river authority ".
3In section 21, after the word "well" in each place where it occurs there shall be inserted the word " borehole ".
4In section 23, at the end of the proviso to subsection (1), there shall be added the following paragraph:—
“(iii)orders under this section shall have effect subject to the provisions of Part IV of the Water Resources Act 1963”.
5In section 11, in subsection (5), for the words from " the power conferred by section twenty-two" to the end there shall be substituted the words " the exercise of any power conferred by section 108 of the Water Resources Act 1963 (which relates to the default powers of Ministers) or by paragraphs 11 and 12 of Schedule 4 to that Act (which relate to committees of river authorities) ".
6In Schedule 2, in paragraph 5, the following sub-paragraphs shall be substituted for sub-paragraph (3):—
“(3)The Minister may by order direct that all or any of the provisions of the Water Resources Act 1963 specified hi the next following sub-paragraph (being supplementary provisions as to the powers and procedure of river authorities and similar matters) shall apply for the purpose of the functions under this Act of the rivers authority for any excluded area as if that authority were a river authority and their area a river authority area, subject to such modifications as may be specified in the order.
(3A)The said provisions are sections 108 and 109, sections 111 to 113, section 120, sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of paragraph 18, and paragraph 19, of Schedule 4, and Schedule 12.”;
and, in sub-paragraph (4) of that paragraph, for the words "River Boards Act 1948 " there shall be substituted the words " Water Resources Act 1963 "; , for the words " the last foregoing sub-paragraph " there shall be substituted the words " sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph " and for the words " said Act of 1948 ", in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words " said Act of 1963 ".
7In Schedule 2, in paragraph 11(1), for the words from " section seven of the River Boards Act" to " excluded from section one of that Act" there shall be substituted the words " section 10 of the Water Resources Act 1963 (which provides for the alteration of river authority areas) ".
8In section 23, in subsection (2), the following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (b)—
“(b)the expression ' drainage authority' has the meaning assigned to it by the Land Drainage Act 1930”.
9In section 14 (1), in paragraph (c) of the definition of " authorised person ", for the words " river board constituted under the River Boards Act 1948 " there shall be substituted the words " river authority ".
10In Schedule 4, in paragraph 10, for the words " river board established under the River Boards Act 1948" there shall be substituted the words " river authority ", and in paragraph 11, for the words " river board " there shall be substituted the words " river authority ".
11In Schedule 1, at the end of Part I, there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—
“8ASections 72, 74 and 76 of the Water Resources Act 1963.”
12In section 3 (5), for the words "paragraph 3 of the Third Schedule to the River Boards Act 1948 " there shall be substituted the words " paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to the Water Resources Act 1963 ", and in section 3(6), for the words " paragraph 3 " there shall be substituted the words " paragraph 6 ".
13In section 40 (1), for the words " a drainage board " there shall be substituted the words " any drainage board other than a river authority ".
14In section 3, in subsection (3), for the words " the said subsection (8)" there shall be substituted the words " section 114 of the Waiter Resources Act 1963 ".
15In section 10 (2), for the words " section fifteen of the River Boards Act 1948 " there shall be substituted the words " section 113 of the Water Resources Act 1963 ".
16In section 11, in paragraph (a) of subsection (4), after the word "parish" there shall be inserted the words " a river authority ".
17In section 14, in subsection (1)(b), for the words " subsection (1) and subsections (4) to (8) of section sixteen, and section seventeen, of the River Boards Act 1948 " there shall be substituted the words " subsections (1), (3) and (4) of section 111 and subsections (1) to (7) of section 112 of the Water Resources Act 1963 ".
18In section 37, in subsection (4), for the words from the beginning of paragraph (b) to the word " and " in the second place where it occurs in that paragraph there shall be substituted the words " ' river purification authority ' means ".