Water Resources Act 1963

Title and introductory text

Water Resources Act 1963 1963 c.38 An Act to provide for the establishment of river authorities and a Water Resources Board, to confer on them, and on the Minister of Housing and Local Government, new functions in relation to water resources in England and Wales, and to provide for the transfer to river authorities of functions previously exercisable by river boards and other bodies; to make further provision for controlling the abstraction and impounding of water, for imposing charges in respect of licences to abstract or impound water, and for securing the protection and proper use of inland waters and water in underground strata; to enable corresponding provision to be made in relation to the Thames and Lee catchment areas and certain other areas in or adjacent to London; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. [31st July 1963]

1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3

(1)—(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6), (7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

16

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

21

(1), (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3),(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

56 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

57 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

63 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

71

– (1),(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

73 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

76 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

78 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

79 Byelaws for protection of water resources.

(1) Section 18 of the Water Act 1945 (which empowers statutory water undertakers to make byelaws for the purpose of protecting water against pollution) shall have effect for enabling byelaws to be made under that section by water authorities. (2) For the purposes of the application of that section by virtue of the preceding subsection— (a) any reference to statutory water undertakers shall be construed as a reference to a water authority, and any reference to the undertakers shall be construed as a reference to the water authority by whom the byelaws are made; (b) the reference in subsection (1) of that section to water which belongs to statutory water undertakers or which they are for the time being authorised to take shall be construed as a reference to any such water as is mentioned in section 68(1) of this Act; and (c) in subsection (5) the words “and subsection (2) of the next but one following section of this Act” shall be omitted. (3)—(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (7) No byelaw made by virtue of section 18 of the Water Act 1945 as applied by subsection (1) of this section shall conflict or interfere with the operation of any byelaw made by a navigation authority, harbour authority or conservancy authority. (8),(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

81 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

89 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

91 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

93

– (1)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

105 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .