WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES WATER SUPPLY, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 These regulations may be cited as the Reservoirs Act 1975 (Registers, Reports and Records) Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1985. Interpretation 2 In this order— “ the Act ” means the Reservoirs Act 1975 , “ the Act of 1930 ” means the Reservoirs (Safety Provisions) Act 1930 , “ lowest natural ground level ” means , where relevant, the lowest bed level of any watercourse , “ top water level ” means , in relation to a reservoir with a fixed overflow sill, the lowest crest level of that sill, and for a reservoir the overflow from which is controlled wholly or partly by movable gates, syphons or otherwise, the maximum level to which water may be stored exclusive of any provision for flood storage . Registers 3 1 The prescribed information to be given about large raised reservoirs in any register kept by a local authority pursuant to section 2(2) of the Act shall be the information set out in Schedule 1 to these regulations, provided that the information set out as items 7 to 10 is only prescribed in the case of a reservoir for which a local authority are the enforcement authority or the undertakers. 2 The register referred to above shall be kept at the principal office of the local authority. Reports 4 1 Reports shall be made by local authorities to the Secretary of State under section 3 of the Act as follows:— a a first report on 1st April 1987, and b further reports at subsequent intervals of two years. 2 The prescribed information which a local authority shall give in the reports required by section 3, shall be— a information as to the steps (if any) that the authority as an enforcement authority has taken in respect of any reservoir to secure that undertakers observe and comply with the requirements of the Act; and b a statement whether as undertakers for any reservoir situated wholly in their area, they have been required by any section of the Act to take steps to observe and comply with the Act, and a statement as to any steps that have been taken; such information to be accompanied by a statement of the number of reservoirs for which the authority is enforcement authority and the number of reservoirs situated wholly in their area for which the authority are the undertakers. Records 5 1 The prescribed form of the record required by section 11(1) of the Act to be kept for every large raised reservoir by the undertakers shall be the form set out in Schedule 2 to these regulations. 2 The other matters of which a record is to be kept under section 11(1), in addition to those specified in subsections (1)(a) and (b) of that section, shall be the matters set out in Schedule 3 to these regulations. 3 The information which is to be given about those matters which are specified in section 11(1)(a) and (b) of the Act shall be that set out in Parts 1 and 2 of the form of record in Schedule 2 and the information which is to be given about the additional matters specified in Schedule 3 shall be that set out in Parts 3 to 11 of that form. Patrick Jenkin Secretary of State for the Environment 12th February 1985 Nicholas Edwards Secretary of State for Wales 12th February 1985 George Younger Secretary of State for Scotland 13th February 1985