(b) for which no water board was in existence
immediately before the commencement of section 1083.
(2) The chief
executive’s appointment under the repealed Act to perform the functions and
exercise the powers of a water board for the former water area continues as an
appointment under this Act to perform the functions and exercise the powers of
a water authority for the area.
(3) A regulation must identify each former
water area continued in existence and taken to be an authority area under
section 1083(2).