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(1)Subject to the following provisions of this section, to section 162(9) below and to the provisions of Chapter III of this Part, every relevant undertaker shall, for the purpose of carrying out its functions, have power—
(a)to lay a relevant pipe in, under or over any street and to keep that pipe there;
(b)to inspect, maintain, adjust, repair or alter any relevant pipe which is in, under or over any street; and
(c)to carry out any works requisite for, or incidental to, the purposes of any works falling within paragraph (a) or (b) above, including for those purposes the following kinds of works, that is to say—
(i)breaking up or opening a street;
(ii)tunnelling or boring under a street;
(iii)breaking up or opening a sewer, drain or tunnel;
(iv)moving or removing earth and other materials.
(2)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1)(c) above, every water undertaker shall have power to erect and keep in any street notices indicating the position of such underground accessories for its relevant pipes as may be used for controlling the flow of water in those pipes.
(3)The power conferred by subsection (2) above shall include power to attach any such notice as is mentioned in that subsection to any building, fence or other structure which is comprised in premises abutting on the street in question.
(4)A stopcock fitted to any service pipe in a street shall be situated as near as reasonably practicable to the boundary of the street; and a water undertaker shall consult with the highway authority concerned before determining in accordance with this subsection where to fit a stopcock in a highway.
(5)Where a water undertaker exercises its powers under this section for the purpose of carrying out works of maintenance, repair or renewal in relation to a service pipe belonging to a person other than the undertaker, the undertaker shall be entitled to recover from the occupier of the premises supplied by means of that pipe the expenses reasonably incurred by that undertaker in so exercising that power.
(6)Until the coming into force of its repeal by the M1New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 section 20 of the M2Highways Act 1980 (works in special roads) shall have effect as if the reference in that section to a power under any enactment to lay down or erect apparatus included a reference to any power to lay any relevant pipe which is conferred by this section.
(7)Subject to section 161(7) below, in this section references to a relevant pipe shall be construed—
(a)in relation to a water undertaker, as references to a water main (including a trunk main [F1but not including a pipe laid in pursuance of section 66B(3)(a)(ii) above which is used for the purpose of supplying water other than for domestic or food production purposes or laid in pursuance of section 66B(3)(a)(iii) above]), resource main, discharge pipe or service pipe; and
[F2(b)in relation to a sewerage undertaker, as references to—
(i)any sewer or disposal main; or
(ii)in relation to the exercise of a power to lay a pipe under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) above or a power related to that power under paragraph (c) of that subsection, any lateral drain which the undertaker is to lay by virtue of section 98 or 101B above; or
(iii)in relation to the exercise of any other power under subsection (1) above, any lateral drain which belongs to or is vested for the time being in the undertaker.]
F3[F4(8)Subsections (9) and (11) below apply where—
(a)an appointment or variation has been made under section 7 above replacing a company as a relevant undertaker,
(b)the appointment or variation relates only to parts of the area to which the company’s appointment as relevant undertaker related, and
(c)the conditions mentioned in subsection (5) of that section were required to be satisfied in relation to each of the premises in those parts served by that company.
[F4(9)Where the company which has replaced the relevant undertaker has done so as water undertaker, in the application of this section and section 159 below in relation to that company any pipe supplying, or intended to supply, any of the premises referred to in subsection (8)(c) above with a supply of water which exceeds, or is likely to exceed, in any period of twelve months—
(a)if the area of the relevant undertaker concerned is wholly or mainly in Wales, 250 megalitres;
(b)in all other cases, [F550 megalitres] ,
shall, for the purposes of subsection (7) above, be deemed to be a water main.]]
(10)Where the Secretary of State makes regulations under section 7(6) above amending section 7(5)(a) above he shall by regulations make the corresponding amendment in subsection (9) above.
(11)Where the company which has replaced the relevant undertaker has done so as sewerage undertaker, in the application of this section and section 159 below in relation to that company any pipe draining, or intended to drain, any of those premises shall, for the purposes of subsection (7) above, be deemed to be a sewer.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 158(7)(a) inserted (1.12.2005) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 101(1), 105(3), Sch. 8 para. 36; S.I. 2005/2714, art. 3(c) (with Sch. para. 8)
F2S. 158(7)(b) substituted (28.5.2004) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 97(4), 105(3); S.I. 2004/641, art. 4(b) (with Sch. 3 para. 7)
F3S. 158(8)-(11) added (1.7.1992) by Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (c. 43), s. 40(6); Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1992, art. 3, Sch. Pt. I
F4S. 158(9) substituted (17.8.2000) by S.I. 2000/1842, reg. 2
F5Words in s. 158(9)(b) substituted (1.4.2005) by The Water and Sewerage Undertakers (Inset Appointments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/268), art. 2(3)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 158 applied (with modifications) (21.7.1994) by 1994 c. xi, s. 11(2)
S. 158 restricted (1.4.1996) by 1980 c. 66, s. 100(6B)(b) (as inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(1), Sch. 7 Pt. I para. 9 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 3, Sch. 1)
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