§ SEWERAGE SERVICES
§ 50A.—(1) The Secretary of State, on an application made to him by the Board, may by order authorise the Board to exercise for the purpose of the sewerage of the area of any new town situated within the area for which the Board is responsible, any powers exercisable by a water authority under section 15 of the Public Health Act 1936 (provision of sewers and sewage disposal works); and, without prejudice to the provisions of this Act with respect to the acquisition of land by the Board, any such order may provide for transferring to the Board any sewers or sewage disposal works 1391 vested in any water authority whose area comprises the area of the new town or any part of that area.
§ (2) Before making an order under this paragraph, the Secretary of State shall consult the council of every county and of every district and the water authority for every water authority area in which the whole or any part of the area of that new town is situated.
§ (3) An order under this paragraph may include a direction that such of the provisions of the Public Health Acts 1936 and 1937 or of the Public Health Act 1961 relating to sewerage and sewage disposal or to sewers, drains, cesspools and sanitary conveniences (including the provisions of the said Acts of 1936 and 1961 relating to the payment of compensation, the breaking up of streets and the power to enter on land) as may be specified in the order shall apply in relation to the area of the new town, subject to such modifications as may be so specified, as if the Board were a water authority (or, where the provision confers or imposes a function on or provides for a thing to be done by or to a local authority, as if the Board were a local authority) and as if the sewers vested in the Board were public sewers.
§ (4) Where in pursuance of an order under this paragraph, sewers or sewage disposal works are constructed by or vested in the Board for the purposes of the sewerage of any part of the area of water authority, that authority shall make towards the expenses of the Board in the construction or maintenance of the sewers or sewage disposal works contributions of such amount, and subject to such conditions, as may be agreed upon between that authority and the Board or as may, in default of such agreement, be determined by the Secretary of State; and the payment of any such contributions shall be a purpose for which the water authority may borrow money.
§ (5) Any order under this paragraph which provides for transferring to the Board sewers or sewage disposal works vested in a water authority may provide for the payment by the Board to that authority, in consideration of the transfer, of such sum as may be agreed upon between the Board and that authority or as may, in default of such agreement, be determined by the Secretary of State.
§ 50B.—(1) Where the Board has, in pursuance of an order under paragraph 50A above, been carrying on a sewerage or sewage disposal undertaking the Board may by agreement with a water authority and with the consent of the Secretary of State and the Treasury, transfer the whole or any part of the undertaking to that authority.
§ (2) The Secretary of State may by order provide for the transfer to a water authority of the whole or any part of a sewerage or sewage disposal undertaking which has, in pursuance of an order under paragraph 50A above, been carried on by the Board, and any such order may contain such incidental, consequential and supplementary provisions as the Secretary of State thinks necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order.
§ (3) The terms on which the whole or any part of an undertaking is transferred by an order under this paragraph shall be such as 1392 the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, may specify in the order, and those terms may provide for the payment by the water authority of such sums, to be satisfied in such manner, as may be so specified:
§ Provided that the total of the sums so paid shall not exceed the total capital cost of the undertaking less depreciation written off.
§ (4) Before making an order under this paragraph the Secretary of State shall consult the water authority and any other authority appearing to him to be concerned.
§ (5) The Secretary of State shall give notice of any order which he proposes to make under this paragraph to the water authority and the Board and, if within 28 days after he has given notice to them either the authority or the Board give notice to him that it objects to the proposal and the objection is not withdrawn, the order shall be subject to special parliamentary procedure.'
§ The LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendments Nos. 54 to 86. I have previously dealt with these Amendments.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.