LegalizeThe Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 4) (Wales) Order 2017
Made: 31 January 2017
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 105(3), (4) and (6) of the Water Act 2003[^f00001] and now vested in them [^f00002], make the following Order:
Title and application
1
- (1) The title of this Order is the Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 4) (Wales) Order 2017.
- (2) This Order applies in relation to Wales.
Appointed day
2
The appointed day for the coming into force of section 58(8) of the Water Act 2003 is the day after the day on which this Order is made.
Signed
Lesley Griffiths — Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers — 31 January 2017
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Order brings into force section 58(8) of the Water Act 2003 (“the Act) in relation to Wales.
Section 58(8) of the Act amends section 213 of the Water Industry Act 1991 and includes amendments to the procedure for certain regulation making powers.
Section 58(8) of the Act was commenced in relation to England by S.I. 2005/344 and S.I. 2009/359.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 2003 c. 37.
[^f00002]: The functions of the National Assembly for Wales under section 105 of the Water Act 2003 are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).
Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.
This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.