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The Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006

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Exchange of metering information between undertakersN.I.

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263.—(1) Where—

(a)different services are provided in relation to the same premises by different relevant undertakers;

(b)one of those undertakers has obtained a reading from a meter used in determining the amount of any charges fixed in relation to those premises;

(c)the charges in relation to those premises of another of those undertakers are fixed by reference to any matter to which the reading is relevant; and

(d)that other undertaker has agreed to bear a reasonable proportion of the expenses of obtaining the reading together with the reasonable expenses of the disclosure of the reading to it,

it shall be the duty of the undertaker who obtained the reading to disclose the reading to the other undertaker.

(2) Any dispute between a relevant undertaker and any other person (including another such undertaker)—

(a)as to the terms to be contained in any agreement for the purposes of paragraph (1)(d); or

(b)as to the amount of any expenses to be borne by any person under any such agreement,

shall be referred to the arbitration of a single arbitrator appointed by agreement between the undertaker and that person or, in default of agreement, by the Authority.

(3) The duties of a relevant undertaker under this Article shall be enforceable under Article 30 by the Authority.

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