112.— The Water Supplies Act 1942 is amended—

(a) by substituting the following for section 2:

“Power of making proposal to take a supply of water.

2.— Whenever a sanitary authority desires to take from a source of water (whether within or without its sanitary district) a supply of water for the purpose of increasing, extending, or providing a supply of water under the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts 1878 to 2001, or the Water Services Act 2007, they may make, under and in accordance with this Act, a proposal for so taking such supply from such source of water.”,

(b) by substituting the following for section 13(1)(b):

“(b) to use such supply for the purpose of increasing, extending, or providing under the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts 1878 to 2001, or the Water Services Act 2007, a supply of water, and”,

and

(c) by substituting the following for section 23:

“Expenses of sanitary authority.

23.— Any expenses incurred by a sanitary authority under this Act for the purposes of increasing, extending or providing a supply of water under the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts 1878 to 2001, or the Water Services Act 2007, shall be raised and defrayed as part of the expenses incurred by such sanitary authority under any of those Acts for the said purpose.”.