The Coast Protection (Variation of Excluded Waters) (River Mersey) Regulations 1983
The Secretary of State for the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 113 of Schedule 4 to the Coast Protection Act 1949(a) and now vested in him(b) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:—

(a) 1949 c. 74.
(b) S.I. 1951/142, 1900, 1970/1681.