PART VUSE OF WATER

CHAPTER IIPROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENT USE OF WATER

Information as to compliance with requirements under Article 146148.

(1)

Where a water undertaker is subject to any requirement imposed under Article 146(1), the Authority may arrange for there to be given to the customers of that undertaker at such times or with such frequency, and in any such manner, as the Authority may consider appropriate, such information about the level of performance achieved by the undertaker in relation to that requirement as appears to the Authority to be expedient to be given to those customers.

(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Authority may arrange for such giving of information as is mentioned in that paragraph by—

(a)

itself disseminating the information or causing it to be disseminated; or

(b)

directing the undertaker to give or arrange to give the information to its customers.

(3)

At such times and in such form or manner as the Authority may direct, a water undertaker shall provide the Authority with such information as may be specified in the direction in connection with the undertaker's performance in relation to any requirement imposed upon the undertaker under Article 146(1).

(4)

A water undertaker who fails without reasonable excuse to do anything required of him by paragraph (3) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.