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Title and introductory text
This Statutory Instrument is published in substitution of the S.I. of the same number to include its date of confirmation and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
2025 No. 732
Land Drainage, England
The Teversham Award Drains Variation Order 2025
Made
11th June 2025
Coming into force
11.30 a.m. on 29th August 2025
Under section 32(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1991 (“the 1991 Act”), the Environment Agency has prepared a Scheme making provision for the matters specified in section 32(1) of the 1991 Act and submitted the Scheme to the Secretary of State for confirmation.
In accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the 1991 Act, the Secretary of State has caused a notice of their intention to make the following Order, the place where copies of the draft Order may be inspected and obtained, and the period within which, and the manner in which, objections to the draft Order may be made, to be published and to be sent to local authorities and other relevant bodies.
Accordingly, the Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred under section 32(5) of the 1991 Act and now vested in the Secretary of State.
Propose a change1 Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Teversham Award Drains Variation Order 2025 and comes into force on the date of its confirmation by the Secretary of State in accordance with paragraphs 3(2) and 5(1) of Schedule 3 to the 1991 Act.
Propose a change2 Confirmation of the Scheme
(1) The Scheme submitted by the Environment Agency and with the modification made by the Secretary of State is confirmed.
(2) The Scheme, as modified by the Secretary of State, is set out in the Schedule to this Order.
Propose a changeSCHEDULE Scheme
Article 2(2)
1 The Scheme shall come into force on the day after the day on which the Order confirming this Scheme is confirmed.
2 In this Scheme—
“the Award” means the Parish of Teversham Enclosure Award dated 20 December 1815, made pursuant to An Act for Inclosing in the Parish of Teversham in the county of Cambridge passed in 1810;
“the Award Drain” means the length of the Award Drain shown by the green line on the Scheme Plan;
“the Commencement Date” means the date on which the Scheme comes into force;
“the Revised Drain” means the length of the drain shown by the red line on the Scheme Plan;
“the Scheme Plan” means the plan marked “Teversham Enclosure Award Variation Order – Drain Six” sealed by the Environment Agency in relation to this Scheme.
3 On the Commencement Date, the obligation to cleanse, scour, repair, and maintain the Award Drain as specified in the Award shall be varied so as to substitute the length of the Award Drain with the length of the Revised Drain.
4 South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council shall be jointly responsible from the Commencement Date for the repair and maintenance of the Revised Drain in place of the Award Drain.
11.30 a.m. on 29th August 2025
Confirmation of Order
The above Order has been published by the Secretary of State in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Land Drainage Act 1991 and no memorial relating to the Order has been presented to the Secretary of State.
The Secretary of State therefore confirms the Order in accordance with paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 3 to that Act.
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