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Changes to legislation:There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Land Drainage Act 1976, SCHEDULE 5.Changes to LegislationRevised legislation carried on this site may not be fully up to date. At the current time any known changes or effects made by subsequent legislation have been applied to the text of the legislation you are viewing by the editorial team. Please see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ for details regarding the timescales for which new effects are identified and recorded on this site.Section 105.SCHEDULE 5E+W Provisions Relating to London InterpretationE+W1(1)In this Act, subject to any order under sub-paragraph (2) below, “the metropolitan watercourses” means—E+W(a)so much of the river Thames as lies within the London excluded area, including all its associated watercourses within the flow and re-flow of its tides in that area;(b)the watercourses shown marked in red on the signed plan as defined in and for the purposes of Part II (Alteration of Kent River Authority area and London excluded area) of the M1Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1968;(c)the river Ravensbourne, the Chaffinch Brook, the Beck River, the Pool River, the Quaggy River, the Kid Brook, the Kyd Brook and the Lower Kid Brook, and their associated watercourses;(d)the Beverley Brook, the river Graveney, the Pyl Brook and the river Wandle, and their associated watercourses;(e)the river Brent, the river Crane and the Duke of Northumberland’s river, and their associated watercourses;(f)any watercourse that immediately before the commencement of this Act was a metropolitan watercourse by virtue of an order under paragraph 15(2) of Schedule 14 to the M2London Government Act 1963;and . . . F1
(2) The [F2Secretary of State] may, after consultation with . . . F3 the council of any district or London borough appearing to him to be affected, by order provide that—
(a)the whole or any part of a watercourse within the London excluded area shall become a metropolitan watercourse; or(b)the whole or any part of a watercourse other than the tidal Thames shall cease to be a metropolitan watercourse; or(c)the whole or any part of a metropolitan watercourse shall become or cease to be a main metropolitan watercourse;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any enactment or instrument, no part of any of the metropolitan watercourses shall be or form part of a public sewer.
Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F1Definition of “main metropolitan watercourse” repealed by S.I. 1986/208, art. 5(3), Sch. 2F2Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(2) substituted (27.3.2002) by S.I. 2002/794, art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 19 (with arts. 5(3), 6)F3Words repealed by S.I. 1986/208, art. 5(3), Sch. 2Marginal CitationsM11968 c. xxxix. M21963 c. 33. 2In this Schedule—E+W“associated watercourse”, in relation to any river, means a tributary or other watercourse the water from which ultimately flows into, or which is directly or indirectly connected with, that river;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4;
“flood works”, in relation to the tidal Thames, has the same meaning as in the local enactments relating thereto;
“the former county of London” means the area constituted by the county of London as it existed immediately before the passing of the M3London Government Act 1963 (under which the said county ceased to exist);
(a)in relation to any watercourse falling within paragraph 1(1)(a) above, the Thames River (Prevention of Floods) Acts 1879 to 1962 and section 14 of the M4London County Council (General Powers) Act 1932;(b)-(f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4“the tidal Thames” means the watercourses falling within paragraph 1(1)(a) above;
“watercourse” includes all rivers and streams and all ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows;
and any mention of a particular river shall not be construed as prejudicing the meaning of the expression “associated watercourse”.
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Annotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F5Sch. 5 para. 3(1)(2) repealed by S.I. 1986/208, art. 5(3), Sch. 2Marginal CitationsM51925 c. cxv. Functions of the Greater London Council with respect to the metropolitan watercoursesE+W4(1)Subject to paragraph 6 below, and to any provision made by an order under section 84 or 87 of the M6London Government Act 1963—E+W(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6(b)the local enactments relating to so much of the tidal Thames as lies within the former county of London shall apply to the whole of the tidal Thames (as defined for the purposes of this Schedule), and in those enactments references to, or which are to be taken as references to, the county of London shall be construed as references to the London excluded area;(c)no functions relating to the drainage of land, flood prevention and the like matters shall (subject to paragraph 6 below) be exercisable with respect to the tidal Thames by any authority under any local statutory provisions other than the enactments mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) above.(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(c) above “local statutory provisions” means provisions of a local Act (including an Act confirming a provisional order) or provisions of a public general Act passed with respect only to the whole or part of the former county of London or provisions of an instrument made under any such local or public general Act or of an instrument in the nature of a local enactment made under any other Act.
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All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F6Sch. 5 para. 4(1)(a) repealed (and functions of Greater London Council transferred) by S.I. 1986/208, arts. 3, 5(3), Sch. 2Marginal CitationsM61963 c. 33. 5Subject to section 21 of the M7Metropolis Management (Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amendment Act 1879 [F7the power of the Thames Water Authority] under the said Act of 1879 and the other enactments relating to the tidal Thames to approve, require the execution of and execute flood works for the protection of land from flooding by the river Thames in the London excluded area shall be exercisable by them for the protection of land from flooding by such of the river’s associated watercourses as immediately before 1st April 1974 lay within the flow and re-flow of its tides in the Lee catchment area.E+WAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F7Words substituted by S.I. 1986/208, art. 5(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 6(1)Modifications etc. (not altering text)C1Functions of Greater London Council transferred by S.I. 1986/208 art. 3Marginal CitationsM71879 c. cxcviii. 6Paragraph 4 . . . F8(b) above and so much of paragraph 2 above as relates to paragraph 4 . . . F8(b) above shall not be construed as extending or restricting the application of any of the local enactments relating to the tidal Thames to property for the time being held for the purposes of their undertaking by the Port of London Authority or as extending or restricting the functions of that Authority.E+WAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F8Words repealed by S.I. 1986/208, art. 5(3), Sch. 2 General provision with respect to the Greater London Council and the Thames Water AuthorityE+W7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9E+WAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F9Ss. 1–3, 20, 62, 117(4), Sch. 5 para. 7 repealed by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 190, Sch. 27 Pt. I (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 189(4)–(10), 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 41(1), 57(6), 58)8—11.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10E+WAnnotations:Annotations are used to give authority for changes and other effects on the legislation you are viewing and to convey editorial information. They appear at the foot of the relevant provision or under the associated heading. Annotations are categorised by annotation type, such as F-notes for textual amendments and I-notes for commencement information (a full list can be found in the Editorial Practice Guide). Each annotation is identified by a sequential reference number. For F-notes, M-notes and X-notes, the number also appears in bold superscript at the relevant location in the text. All annotations contain links to the affecting legislation.Amendments (Textual)F10Sch. 5 paras. 8–11 repealed by S.I. 1986/208, art. 5(3), Sch. 2Previous: ScheduleNext: ScheduleBack to topOptions/HelpPrint OptionsPrint The Whole ActPDF The Whole ActWeb page The Whole ActPrint This Schedule onlyPDF This Schedule onlyWeb page This Schedule onlyLegislation is available in different versions:Latest Available (revised):The latest available updated version of the legislation incorporating changes made by subsequent legislation and applied by our editorial team. Changes we have not yet applied to the text, can be found in the ‘Changes to Legislation’ area.Original (As Enacted or Made):The original version of the legislation as it stood when it was enacted or made. No changes have been applied to the text.See additional information alongside the contentGeographical Extent: Indicates the geographical area that this provision applies to. 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