The River Boards Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 32) was an Act of Parliament passed by the United Kingdom Government which provided constitutional, financial...

River Boards Act 1948, and replaced the catchment boards that had been created following the passing of the 1930 Act. Although the Act proposed river...

(SR&O 1947/2797). The River Boards Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 32) saw the formation of river boards to replace catchment boards throughout England and...

commission were enshrined in the legislation. The River Boards Act 1948 sought to establish river boards throughout the whole of England and Wales, with...

obligations. It built upon the provisions of the Land Drainage Act 1930 and the River Boards Act 1948. Prior to the 1930s, land drainage in the United Kingdom...

but this changed in 1948, when the River Boards Act 1948 created 32 river boards. They inherited the powers of the catchment boards where they existed...

the boards of guardians acting merely as inspectors. In 1834, he was appointed secretary to the Poor Law commissioners. Unwilling to administer an act of...

Drainage Act 1930 and became the Bristol Avon River Board under the River Boards Act 1948; the board was in turn replaced by the Bristol Avon River Authority...

the passing of the River Boards Act 1948. Of the 53 Fishery Boards that had existed in 1894, only 45 were still functioning by 1948, and the new legislation...

another river authority. The river authorities covered the areas of one or more of the river boards created under the River Boards Act 1948, and inherited...

the River Boards Act 1948, which transferred the land drainage, fisheries and river pollution functions of the catchment boards to river boards. Thirty-two...

in 1948, when the River Boards Act 1948 created 32 river boards. Where catchment boards existed, their powers were inherited by the river boards, and...

but was enacted as the River Board Act 1948. The Act transferred the legal powers of the River Catchment Boards to the River Boards. It provided the legal...

Lincolnshire River Board following the passing of the River Boards Act 1948, and the new board also had responsibility for the River Welland, the River Witham...

Wales in 2013. "Water act 1989 part 1: creation of NRA". "Collections: Post privatisation: Severn Trent Water, National Rivers Authority and Environment...

pollution and the gauging of rivers. River boards were replaced by twenty-seven river authorities as a result of the Water Resources Act 1963, and they gained...

Water portal The Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56) is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament consolidating previous enactments relating to the water supply...

Salmon Fishery Act 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 121), which allowed boards of conservators to be set up, with powers to manage rivers or river systems as defined...

Conservancy Acts dating from 1894 to 1924. The River Boards Act 1948 replaced catchment boards with river boards, covering the whole of England and Wales,...

Act 1973 had focused on providing a single unifying body with responsibility for all water-related function within a river basin or series of river basins...

31) National Service Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 64) Road Haulage Wages Act 1938 (1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. 44) Holidays with Pay Act 1938 (1 & 2 Geo. 6. c....

commissioners (DDCs) are internal drainage boards set up under local legislation rather than the Land Drainage Act 1991 and its predecessor legislation. The...

Water (Scotland) Act 1967 was an attempt to consolidate the large number of water supply authorities, and created 13 regional water boards. Responsibility...

for the mills on the River Esk, while allowing the Water Company to always keep the pipeline from Crawley Springs full. The 1847 Act was innovative, in...

superseded by the Trent River Board, under the provisions of the River Boards Act 1948, which dredged the river and maintained the river level some 8 feet (2...

their water supply, and bought out the water company in 1871. The enabling Act of Parliament also allowed them to construct a sewerage network, which fed...

Elswick, to pump water from the river to a reservoir at Arthur's Hill. Much of the work was carried out before the enabling Act of Parliament was obtained...

privatised by the Water Act 1989, while the land drainage, fishery and river management responsibilities passed to the National Rivers Authority. Consequently...

sufficient to fund such capital work. Under the terms of the Public Health Act, local boards of health could be created in towns or villages where the death rate...

Gainsborough. The river was improved for navigation following the passing of an act of Parliament, the River Stower Navigation Act 1705 (4 & 5 Ann. c...