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(1)A relevant undertaker may make a scheme (“a charges scheme”) which [F1has effect in relation to a specified period of twelve months and]does any one or more of the following, that is to say—
(a)fixes the charges to be paid for any services provided by the undertaker in the course of carrying out its functions;
(b)in the case of a sewerage undertaker, requires such charges as may be fixed by the scheme to be paid to the undertaker where, in the circumstances set out in the scheme—
(i)a notice containing an application for a consent is served on the undertaker under section 119 above;
(ii)such a consent as is necessary for the purposes of Chapter III of Part IV of this Act is given by the undertaker; or
(iii)a discharge is made in pursuance of such a consent;
and
(c)makes provision with respect to the times and methods of payment of the charges fixed by the scheme.
(2)The persons who may be required by a charges scheme to pay any charge fixed by virtue of subsection (1)(b) above shall be the person who serves the notice, the person to whom the consent is given or, as the case may be, any person who makes a discharge in pursuance of the consent at any time during the period to which, in accordance with the scheme, the charge relates.
(3)A charges scheme which requires the payment of charges where a discharge has been made in pursuance of such a consent as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above may impose—
(a)a single charge in respect of the whole period for which the consent is in force;
(b)separate charges in respect of different parts of that period; or
(c)both such a single charge and such separate charges.
[F2(3A)A sewerage undertaker is under a duty to ensure that any charges scheme made by the undertaker, so far as having effect to recover the undertaker’s costs of providing a sewer by virtue of its duty under section 101A(1) above, causes those costs to be borne by the undertaker’s customers generally; and a sewerage undertaker’s duty under this subsection shall be enforceable under section 18 above—
(a)by the Secretary of State; or
(b)with the consent of or in accordance with a general authorisation given by the Secretary of State, by the Director.]
(4)A charges scheme may—
(a)make different provision for different cases, including different provision in relation to different circumstances or localities; and
(b)contain supplemental, consequential and transitional provision for the purposes of the scheme;
and such a scheme may revoke or amend a previous charges scheme.
(5)Nothing in any charges scheme shall affect—
(a)any power of a relevant undertaker [F3in a case not falling within section 142(2A) above]to enter into such an agreement with any person in any particular case as determines the charges to be made for the services provided to that person by the undertaker; or
(b)the power of a sewerage undertaker to enter into any agreement under section 129 above on terms that provide for the making of payments to the undertaker.
[F4(6)If the Authority considers that a relevant undertaker's charges scheme does not comply with—
(a)subsection (2), (3) or (5),
(b)regulations under section 143A,
(c)rules under section 143B, or
(d)section 144A(9), (10) or (11)(a),
the Authority may give the undertaker a direction to do, or not to do, a thing specified in the direction.
(6A)The Authority must issue rules (and, if it revises rules it has issued, must issue revised rules) about consulting the Council about proposed charges schemes.
(6B)The rules must require a relevant undertaker that proposes to make a charges scheme to consult the Council about its proposed scheme.
(6C)If the Authority considers that a relevant undertaker has not complied with those rules, it may give the undertaker a direction to do, or not to do, a thing specified in the direction.
(6D)It is the duty of a relevant undertaker to comply with a direction under subsection (6) or (6C), and this duty is enforceable by the Authority under section 18.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 143(1) inserted (23.12.1999) by 1999 c. 9, s. 4(2); S.I. 1999/3440, art. 2
F2S. 143(3A) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 114(1)(2) (with ss. 6(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3
F3Words in s. 143(5)(a) inserted (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 9, s. 3(2); S.I. 1999/3440, art. 3
F4S. 143(6)-(6D) substituted for s. 143(6)-(9) (1.11.2015) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), ss. 16(1), 94(3); S.I. 2015/1469, art. 4(a) (with art. 5(4)(5))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 143 applied (with modifications) (28.6.2013) by The Water Industry (Specified Infrastructure Projects) (English Undertakers) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1582), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 11(2) (with reg. 1(1)(c)) (as amended (31.3.2017) by The Water Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/506), arts. 1(1), 30(12)(b))
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