Water Act 1973CHAPTER 37LONDON: HMSOReprinted 1990Water Act 1973 c. 37 ELIZABETH II Water Act 1973 1973 CHAPTER 37 An Act to make provision for a national policy for water, for the conferring and discharge of functions as to water (including sewerage and sewage disposal, fisheries and land drainage) and as to recreation and amenity in connection with water, for the making of charges by water authorities and other statutory water undertakers, and for connected purposes. [18th July 1973] B E IT ENACTED by the Queens most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— PART I NATIONAL POLICY AND CENTRAL AND LOCAL ORGANISATION National policy 1.—(l) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State and the National Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (in this Act policy for referred to as "the Minister ") to promote jointly a national ...