The Thames Water Authority (Leckhampstead Borehole) Order 1987

Made: 16th November 1987

Coming into force: 1st December 1987

The Secretary of State for the Environment, on the application of the Thames Water Authority, being statutory water undertakers[^f00001] in exercise of powers conferred by sections 23, 32(1) and 59(1)[^f00002] of the Water Act 1945[^f00003] and now vested in him[^f00004] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Thames Water Authority (Leckhampstead Borehole) Order 1987 and shall come into force on the 1st December 1987.

• (2) This Order shall be included amongst the enactments which may be cited together as the Thames Water Authority Orders 1974 to 1987.

• (3) In this Order—

• “the Authority” means the Thames Water Authority;

• “the deposited plan” means the plan prepared in duplicate, signed by an Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment and marked “Plan referred to in the Thames Water Authority (Leckhampstead Borehole) Order 1987”, one duplicate of which is deposited and is available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment and the other at the principal office of the authority at Nugent House, Vastern Road, Reading, Berkshire RE1 8DB;

• “the Third Schedule” means the Third Schedule to the Water Act 1945;

• “the undertaking” means the water undertaking of the Authority as for the time being authorised by any enactment.

Authorisation of works

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• (1) The Authority may continue and maintain in, on or under the land described in Schedule 1 the existing borehole 585mm in diameter and (in addition to the works authorised by Section 4 of the Third Schedule as applied to the undertaking by this Order) may construct and maintain in, on or under the said land all such additional wells, boreholes, adits and headings as may be necessary or expedient for augmenting, improving or maintaining the supply of water obtainable by means of the said borehole.

• (2) The works authorised by this Order shall for all purposes form part of the undertaking.

Application of certain provisions of the Third Schedule

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For the purposes of this Order the provisions of the Third Schedule which are specified in column (1) of Schedule 2 to this Order shall, subject to the modifications set out in column (2) thereof, apply to the undertaking and are hereby incorporated with this Order.

SCHEDULE 1 — LAND ON OR UNDER WHICH WORKS MAY BE CONTINUED AND MAINTAINED UNDER THIS ORDER

Land in the Parish of Leckhampstead in the Royal County of Berkshire shown edged red on the deposited plan comprising 0.7 acres or thereabouts being part of enclosure numbered 5700 on the 1/2500 Ordnance Map sheet number SU 4476 (1974 Edition) at National Grid reference SU 4420 7688.

SCHEDULE 2 — PROVISIONS OF THE THIRD SCHEDULE APPLIED

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

J. A. L. Gunn — An Under Secretary in the — Department of the Environment — 16th November 1987

Footnotes

[^f00001]: See the Water Act 1973 (c. 37), section 11(6).

[^f00002]: See the definition of “Minister”.

[^f00003]: 1945 c. 42. There are amendments to sections 23 and 32 but none are relevant to this Order.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1951/142, 1900, 1970/1681.

[^f00005]: Section 94(1) was amended by S.I. 1986/1.