The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024

Application of certain rules of the 2016 Rules with modifications

5.—(1) These Rules apply certain provisions of the 2016 Rules, with modifications in certain cases, as follows—

(a) rules listed in the Schedule to these Rules apply for the purposes of these Rules subject to the modifications set out in paragraph (2) and in Parts 2 to 9;

(b) in Part 3 of the 2016 Rules—

(i) Chapter 5 applies with the insertion of rule 3.27A (see rule 41 of these Rules);

(ii) Chapter 7 (so far as it applies for the purposes of these Rules) applies with the insertion of rule 3.42A (see rule 47 of these Rules);

(c) in Part 12 of the 2016 Rules, Chapter 3 applies with the insertion of rule 12.13A (see rule 64 of these Rules);

(d) Schedules 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 apply for the purposes of these Rules.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of these Rules and except where the context demands otherwise, where a rule of the 2016 Rules applies by virtue of these Rules, that rule has effect as if—

(i) for “administration” in each place where it occurs, there were substituted “special administration”;

(ii) for “administrator” in each place where it occurs, there were substituted “special administrator”;

(iii) for “office-holder” in each place where it occurs, there were substituted “special administrator”;

(iv) for “an”, in each place where it precedes “administration”, “administrator” or “office-holder”, there were substituted “a”.