The Reservoirs Act 1975 (Registers, Reports and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 1985

Statutory Instruments

1985 No. 548

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES WATER SUPPLY, SCOTLAND

The Reservoirs Act 1975 (Registers, Reports and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 1985

Made

29th March 1985

Coming into Operation

1st April 1985

The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under sections 5 and 11 of the Reservoirs Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1.  These regulations may be cited as the Reservoirs Act 1975 (Registers, Reports and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1985.

Amendment of the Reservoirs Act 1975 (Registers, Reports and Records) Regulations 1985

2.  In Schedule 2 to the Reservoirs Act 1975 (Registers, Reports and Records) Regulations 1985 (form of the record to be kept for every large raised reservoir by the undertakers), there shall be substituted, for Part 8, the new Part 8 set out in the Schedule hereto.

Patrick Jenkin

Secretary of State for the Environment

26th March 1985

Nicholas Edwards

Secretary of State for Wales

27th March 1985

George Younger

Secretary of State for Scotland

29th March 1985

SCHEDULE

Part 8—Dam, reservoir wall or embankment

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Reservoirs Act 1975 (Registers, Reports and Records) Regulations 1985 prescribed matters about which undertakers are, by section 11 of the Reservoirs Act 1975, required to keep a record. They also prescribed the information to be given about those matters and the form of the record.

These amending regulations amend the prescribed form of record to make provision for information as to the level above Ordnance Datum of the top of the dam, reservoir wall or embankment and of the top of the wave wall.