Citation, commencement, application and expiryE+W
1.—(1) These Regulations—
(a)may be cited as the Water Industry (Specified Infrastructure Projects) (English Undertakers) Regulations 2013;
(b)come into force on the day after the day on which they are made; and
(c)apply in relation to the provision of infrastructure for the use of one or more English undertakers in carrying out their duties under—
(i)section 37 of the Act (general duty to maintain water supply system etc.), or
(ii)section 94 of the Act M1 (general duty to provide sewerage system) as supplemented by paragraph (1) of regulation 4 of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations 1994 M2 (duty to provide and maintain collecting systems and treatment plants),
including those duties as modified by these Regulations.
(2) Subject to paragraph (4), regulations 4(1) and 8(1) cease to have effect at the end of the period of seven years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.
(3) If the powers in regulations 4(1) and 8(1) have not been exercised before the end of that period, the other provisions in these Regulations also cease to have effect at the end of that period.
(4) Notices issued under regulations 4(1) and 8(1) that are in force at the end of that period continue to have effect despite revocation of those provisions, and regulations 4(7) and 8(6) have effect after that period in relation to such notices.
Marginal Citations
M1Section 94 was amended by sections 88(2) and 97(1) and (3) of the Water Act 2003. There are other amendments but none is relevant. By virtue of section 36(2) of the Water Act 2003, each reference to the Director General of Water Services in the Act has effect as a reference to the Water Services Regulation Authority.
M2S.I. 1994/2841, as amended by section 120 of, and paragraph 233 of Schedule 22 to, the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), S.I. 2003/1788, 2005/2035, 2010/675 and 2011/556.