Southern Water Authority Act 1982
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1982 c. xxii |
| Year | 1982 |
Southern Water Authority
Act
1982
c. xxii
ELIZABETH II
1982 CHAPTER xxii
An Act to authorise the Southern Water Authority to
construct works and to acquire lands; to regulate the
use of vessels and houseboats on certain parts of the
river Medway; to confer further powers on the Southern
Water Authority; and for other purposes.
[28th October 1982]
W
HEREAS the Southern Water Authority (hereinafter in
this Act referred to as " the Authority ") were, in pur-
suance of
the
Water Act 1973, constituted as the authority 1973
responsible for water conservation, the supply of water, the
provision of public sewerage and sewage disposal, land drainage,
the prevention of pollution, water recreation and the management
and improvement of salmon, trout and freshwater fisheries in
an area comprising the counties of East Sussex and Isle of Wight
and parts of the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and Kent:
And whereas for the protection of the waters of the river Rother,
for facilitating navigation of that
river
and for the several purposes
of their functions the Authority maintain on that river in the
district of Rother in the parish of Playden in the county of East
Sussex a sluice and lock known as Scotsfloat Sluice, and the same
is of considerable age and in need of replacement:
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Southern Water Authority
Act
1982
And whereas Scotsfloat Sluice is the upstream limit of
the
port
and harbour of Rye of which the Authority are the harbour
authority:
And whereas it is expedient that the Authority should be
empowered to construct in and about the tidal section of the
river Rother the works specified by this Act and to acquire lands
for such works, that Scotsfloat Sluice and the existing works
incidental thereto should be demolished and part of the tidal
section of the river Rother diverted, and that the upstream limit
of the port and harbour of Rye should be altered as by this Act
provided:
And whereas the Authority are the navigation authority for
certain upper stretches of the river Medway including the river
between Allington Lock and a point upstream of Tonbridge in
the county of Kent, and it is expedient that the Authority should
be empowered to regulate the use of
vessels
and houseboats upon
the river and to levy charges upon such vessels and houseboats
as by this Act authorised:
And whereas it is expedient that the other provisions in
this Act
should be enacted:
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas a plan and sections showing the lines, situations
and levels of the works authorised by this Act, and a book of
reference to such plan containing the names of the owners and
lessees, or reputed owners and lessees, and of the occupiers, of
the lands which may be acquired or used compulsorily under
the powers of this Act, have been deposited in the office of the
Clerk of the Parliaments and in the Private Bill Office, House of
Commons, and with the chief executive of the county council
of the county of East Sussex and such plan, sections and book
of
reference are in this Act respectively referred to as the deposited
plan, the deposited sections and the deposited book of reference:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted,
and be it enacted, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of
the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of
the
same, as follows:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation and
1.—(1)
This Act may be cited as the Southern Water Authority
commence- Act 1982.
ment.
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