§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonI beg to move amendment No. 10, in page 13, leave out lines 22 to 24 and insert
'and where applications are made both by a board and by an authority in respect of the same locality, the Secretary of State may make separate drought orders in favour of the board and in favour of the authority.'.This amendment seeks to clarify that the Secretary of State may, if appropriate, grant orders both to a water authority and to a water development board in respect of a drought affecting one area. While it might be expected that the water authority could be in the lead in such cases, a board would require an order to allow it to meet any request from the authority for additional supplies. The problem might be that, in case of drought, the water authority would need extra supplies from the Central 1290 Scotland water development board, which had huge supplies, and both the water authority and the development board would need a drought order of their own to achieve that.
§ Amendment agreed to.