Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Act, 1990

Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act.

11.—Section 15 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following subsections for subsection (3):

“(3) Two or more local authorities may jointly make a water quality management plan in relation to waters part of which are in or adjoin the functional area of each local authority.

(3A) A water quality management plan may be revised or replaced by the local authority or local authorities that made it.”, and

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (6):

“(6) As soon as practicable after the making, revision or replacement of a plan under this section, a copy of the plan as so made or revised or of the replacement plan shall be given by the local authority concerned to the Minister and the Minister for the Marine and to any local authority, sanitary authority or regional board whose functional area either adjoins the waters to which the plan relates or the performance of whose functions would be affected by or would affect the implementation of the plan.”.