The Environment Agency (Inland Waterways) Order 2010

Enlargement and re-definition of Anglian recreational waterways

28.—(1) The Anglian Water Authority Act 1977(1) is modified to extend the waterways for which the Agency is the navigation authority to include—

(a) that part of the River Little Ouse between Brandon Staunch and Brandon Bridge; and

(b) the Great Ouse Flood Relief Channel between the Head sluice lock at Denver and the Tail sluice at Saddlebrow.

(2) In consequence of paragraph (1)—

(a) Breckland District Council is no longer the navigation authority for the part of the River Little Ouse referred to in that paragraph;

(b) the Act of 1670(2) intituled “An Act for making navigable the Rivers commonly called Brandon and Waveney” and the Act of 1810(3) intituled “An Act for amending an Act of the twenty second year of His late Majesty King Charles the Second so far as the same relates to the River Brandon otherwise the Lesser Ouse from the White House near Brandon Ferry to Thetford in Norfolk in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and for improving the navigation of the said River” cease to have effect in relation to that part of the River Little Ouse; and

(c) for Schedule 1 to the Anglian Water Authority Act 1977 there is substituted the replacement Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.

(1)

1977 c. i.

(2)

1670 c. 16. (Original Act No.29).

(3)

1810 c. clxvi.