Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1021    (C. 42)

WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007

Made

23rd March 2007

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 104(6)(a) and 105(3) to (6) of the Water Act 2003(1) and having consulted the National Assembly for Wales(2):

(1)

2003 c. 37.

(2)

The power in section 105(3) to appoint a day on which provisions of the Water Act 2003 shall come into force is vested in the “appropriate authority”. The appropriate authority in relation to the provisions of that Act for which a day is appointed by this Order is the Secretary of State after consulting “the Assembly” (the National Assembly for Wales: see section 105(2)).