Supply of Water in Bulk Act 1934
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1934 c. 15 |
| Year | 1934 |
Supply of Water in Bulk Act, 1934
(24 & 25 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 15.
An Act to empower statutory water undertakers to give and to take supplies of water in bulk.
[17th May 1934]
B E it enacted by the King'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:—
1 Supply of water in bulk.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act any statutory water undertakers may enter into and carry into effect agreements with any other statutory water undertakers for the giving by the one and the taking by the other of a supply of water in bulk.
(2) An agreement under this Act—
(a ) may provide for the giving and taking of the supply for any period and on any terms and conditions and either within or beyond the limits of supply of the supplying undertakers;
(b ) shall not be entered into except with the consent of the Minister of Health:
(c ) where the undertakers taking the supply are a local authority, and the area to be supplied is within the limits of supply of any other statutory water undertakers, shall not be entered into except with the consent of those other undertakers.
(3) The Minister of Health shall not give his consent to an agreement if it appears to him that the giving of the supply would be likely to interfere with the supply of water for domestic or other purposes within the limits of supply of the supplying undertakers.
(4) For the purpose of giving or taking a supply of water in pursuance of an agreement made under this Act, statutory water undertakers may exercise either within or beyond their limits of supply any of the powers which, under sections twenty-eight to thirty-four of the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 (which relate to the breaking up of streets for the purpose of laying pipes) are exercisable by undertakers within the limits of a special Act for the purpose of supplying water to the inhabitants of the district included within those limits:
Provided that the consent of the persons, under whose control or management a street or bridge is, shall be required to the opening or breaking up thereof, but that consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, and any question whether or not consent is unreasonably withheld shall be decided by the Minister:
Provided also that, where the undertakers propose to open or break up any length of a street which forms a level crossing or crosses over or under a railway or...
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