The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015

Provisions of the 2014 Act coming into force on 1st January 2016 U.K.

3.  The following provisions of the 2014 Act come into force on 1st January 2016—

(a) section 1 (types of water supply licence and arrangements with water undertakers) as follows—

(i) subsection (1) so far as it substitutes section 17A(2) to (6) of the 1991 Act(1); and

(ii) subsection (2);

(b) section 4 (types of sewerage licence and arrangements with sewerage undertakers) as follows—

(i) subsection (1) so far as it inserts section 17BA(2) to (5) into the 1991 Act; and

(ii) subsection (2);

(c) section 56 so far as it relates to paragraph (f);

(d) Schedule 1 (water supply licences: authorisations);

(e) Schedule 3 (sewerage licences: authorisations); and

(f) in Schedule 7—

(i) paragraph 11;

(ii) paragraph 12(2);

(iii) paragraph 12(1) so far as it relates to sub-paragraph (ii);

(iv) paragraph 13;

(v) paragraph 15(3), (4)(a), (c) and (d) and (5);

(vi) paragraph 15(1) so far as it relates to sub-paragraph (v);

(vii) paragraphs 16 to 18; and

(viii) paragraph 2 so far as it relates to sub-paragraphs (i) to (vii).

(1)

Section 17A of the 1991 Act was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Water Act 2003 (c.37).