Water Act 1973

66 For section 12 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 (application of provisions of Schedule 3 to the [1945 c. 42.] Water Act 1945 to the water undertakings of local authorities) there shall be substituted the following section:—

“12 Water undertakings of water authorities.

(1) Subject to any provision to the contrary contained in any instrument made under or by virtue of the Water Act 1973, Part XIII of Schedule 3 to the Water Act 1945 (provisions for preventing waste of water), except section 61 (power to test water fittings), shall apply throughout every water authority area except in the limits of supply of a statutory water company within the meaning of the Water Act 1973.

(2) Section 64 of that Schedule (waste of water by non-repair of water fittings) shall have effect, in its application to the undertaking of a water authority, as set out with modifications in the Schedule to this Act.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in section 41(3) of the said Schedule 3 (recovery from owners or occupiers of expenses incurred by the undertakers in laying communication pipes), as it applies in relation to the water undertaking of a water authority, or in any corresponding provision of a local enactment within the meaning of the [1945 c. 42.] Water Act 1945 relating to the supply of water by a water authority, that authority may, if they think fit, themselves bear the whole or any part of any expenses recoverable by them under that subsection or the corresponding provision.”