
1 
This order may be cited as the Water Authority Expenses (Limitation of Precepts) Order 1980 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1981.
2 
The number specified for the purposes of section 46(5) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 shall be 2.5.
3 
The rate period specified for the purposes of section 181(4) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (from the beginning of which period the exercise of the powers of section 46(5) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 as amended by section 181(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 has effect) shall be the rate period next beginning after 31st March 1981.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 19th December 1980.
Peter Walker
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Nicholas Edwards
Secretary of State for Wales
17th December 1980