Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/221
Timestamp: 2017-11-21 16:14:24
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4', 'art. 3', 'art. 4']

s. 221 applied by 2003 c. 37 s. 27(3)
s. 221 word inserted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(7)
s. 221 word inserted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(9)
s. 221 words inserted by S.I. 2010/675 Sch. 26 Pt. 1 para. 8(10)(a)
s. 221 words inserted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(2)
s. 221 words inserted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(3)(b)
s. 221 words inserted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(4)
s. 221 words inserted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(5)
s. 221 words inserted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(6)
s. 221 words inserted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(8)
s. 221 words repealed by S.I. 2010/675 Sch. 26 Pt. 1 para. 8(10)(b) Sch. 28
s. 221 words substituted by 2003 c. 21 Sch. 17 para. 113
s. 221 words substituted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(3)(a)
s. 221 words substituted by S.I. 2013/755 Sch. 2 para. 304(3)(c)
s. 221(1) word omitted by S.I. 2016/475 Sch. 3 para. 2(a)
s. 221(1) words inserted by S.I. 2016/475 Sch. 3 para. 2(b)
s. 221(1) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 s. 59(4)(a)
s. 221(1) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 s. 59(4)(b)
s. 221(1) words substituted by S.I. 2016/1154 Sch. 29 Pt. 1 para. 9
s. 221(3) extended by 2014 c. 21 s. 61(10)
[F1“the 1995 Act” means the Environment Act 1995;]
“accessories”, in relation to a main, sewer or other pipe, includes any manholes, ventilating shafts, inspection chambers, settling tanks, wash-out pipes, pumps, ferrules or stopcocks for the main, sewer or other pipe, or any machinery or other apparatus which is designed or adapted for use in connection with the use or maintenance of the main, sewer or other pipe or of another accessory for it, but does not include any telecommunication apparatus (within the meaning of Schedule 2 to the M1Telecommunications Act 1984) unless it—
and in this definition “stopcock” has the same meaning as in the M2Water Industry Act 1991;
[F2“the Agency” means the Environment Agency;]
“agriculture” has the same meaning as in the M3Agriculture Act 1947 and “agricultural” shall be construed accordingly;
“drain” has, subject to subsection (2) below, the same meaning as in the M4Water Industry Act 1991;
[F5“enforcement notice” has the meaning given by section 90B above;]
[F6“flood defence functions”, in relation to the Agency, means—
its functions with respect to flood defence and land drainage by virtue of Part IV of this Act, the M5Land Drainage Act 1991 and section 6 of the 1995 Act;
those functions transferred to the Agency by section 2(1)(a)(iii) of the 1995 Act which were previously transferred to the Authority by virtue of section 136(8) of the M6Water Act 1989 and paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 15 to that Act (transfer of land drainage functions under local statutory provisions and subordinate legislation); and
[F7“flood defence provisions”, in relation to this Act, means—
“harbour” has the same meaning for the purposes of the flood defence provisions of this Act as in [F8section 313 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995];
“harbour authority” (except in the flood defence provisions of this Act, in which it has the same meaning as in [F9section 313 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995]) means a person who is a harbour authority [F9as defined in section 151 for the purposes of Chapter II of Part VI of that Act] and is not a navigation authority;
“highway” has the same meaning as in the M7Highways Act 1980;
“joint planning board” has the same meaning as in the M8Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
“local authority” means the council of any county, [F10county borough,] district or London borough or the Common Council of the City of London;
“public authority” means any Minister of the Crown or government department, the [F11Agency], any local authority or any person certified by the Secretary of State to be a public authority for the purposes of this Act;
“public sewer” means a sewer for the time being vested in a sewerage undertaker in its capacity as such, whether vested in that undertaker by virtue of a scheme under Schedule 2 to the M9Water Act 1989, section 179 of or Schedule 2 to the M10Water Industry Act 1991 or otherwise;
[F12“the related water resources provisions”, in relation to Chapter II of Part II of this Act, means—
“street” has, subject to subsection (4) below, the same meaning as in Part III of the M11New Roads and Street Works 1991;
“subordinate legislation” has the same meaning as in the M12Interpretation Act 1978;
belong to the [F11Agency] or a water undertaker; or
sections 161 [F13to 161D], 190, 202, [F14and 203] above; and
[F15and the following provisions of the 1995 Act, that is to say, the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of section 53.]
(4)Until the coming into force of Part III of the M14New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, the definition of “street” in subsection (1) above shall have effect as if the reference to that Part were a reference to the M15Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950; but nothing in this section shall be taken—
(8)Sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the M16Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 has effect (by virtue of sub-paragraph (2)(b) of that paragraph) so that references in this Act to things done under or for the purposes of provisions of this Act, the M17Water Industry Act 1991 or the M18Land Drainage Act 1991 include references to things done, or treated as done, under or for the purposes of the corresponding provisions of the law in force before the commencement of this Act.
(9)Subject to any provision to the contrary which is contained in Schedule 26 to the M19Water Act 1989 or in the M20Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991, nothing in any local statutory provision passed or made before 1st September 1989 shall be construed as relieving any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker from any liability arising by virtue of this Act in respect of any act or omission occurring on or after that date.
F1Words in s. 221(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 177(2) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F2Words in s. 221(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 177(3) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F3Words in s. 221(1) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1)(3), Sch. 22 para. 177(4), Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F4Words in s. 221(1) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1)(3), Sch. 22 para. 177(5), Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F5Words in s. 221(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 177(6) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F6Words in s. 221(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 177(7) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F7Words in s. 221(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 177(8) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F8Words in s. 221(1) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(2), 316(2), Sch. 13 para. 90(a) (with s. 312(1))
F9Words in s. 221(1) substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(2), 316(2), Sch. 13 para. 90(b) (with s. 312(1))
F10Words in s. 221(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(5), Sch. 11 Pt. I para. 3(6) (with ss. 54(4)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 3, Sch. 1
F11Words in s. 221 substituted (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 128 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F12Words in s. 221(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 177(9) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F13Words in s. 221(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 177(10)(a)(i) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F14Words in s. 221(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 177(10)(a)(ii) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
F15Words in s. 221(1) added (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 177(10)(b) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)
C1S. 221(1): definition applied (01.12.1991) by Land Drainage Act 1991 (c. 59, SIF 73:1), ss. 61(2), 67(2)(6), 76(2).
M101991 c. 56.
M141991 c. 22.
M151950 c. 39.
M161991 c. 60.
M181991 c. 59.
M191989 c. 15.
M201991 c. 60.