
1 
These regulations may be cited as the 
Water (Compensation) Regulations 1983 and shall
come into operation on 30th September 1983.
2 
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

 “the Act”
means the Water Act 1983
, and 
“paragraph 8” means 
paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Act;
 “the 1978 Act”
means the 
Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978;

 “the compensation authority”
 has the meaning assigned to it by 
regulation 3 below;
 “the date of transfer”
 means 30th September 1983.
3 
For the purposes of paragraph 8,
the Severn-Trent Water Authority is hereby designated as the compensation
authority.
4 
On the date of transfer, the liabilities of the National Water
Council relating to—
(a) the payment of benefits or compensation
in respect of early retirement or for loss of employment, and
(b) redundancy payments within the meaning
of the 1978 Act shall be transferred to the compensation authority and shall
become liabilities of that authority.
5 

(1) Where, in respect of any year or other
period to which any determination is expressed to relate, the compensation
authority has calculated and notified in writing to any water authority the
amount of the total cost, the compensation authority may recover the relevant
proportion of that cost from that authority.
(2) In this regulation, 
“determination” means a determination
made and issued by the Secretary of State in pursuance of 
paragraph 8; 
“the total cost” means the
cost incurred by the compensation authority in consequence of these regulations;
 and, in relation to any water authority
other than the compensation authority, “the
relevant proportion” means the proportion of the total
cost specified in any determination in respect of that authority.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Ian Gow
Minister for Housing and Construction
Department of the Environment
17th August 1983