PART 3 SEWERAGE SERVICES: REASONABLE COST

Non-dwellings

7.—(1) For the purposes of section 1 of the 1968 Act, in determining what is a reasonable cost to take public sewers to such point or points as will enable the owner of premises (or part of them), which does not contain any dwellings and which is to be served by the public sewers, to connect the owner’s drains or private sewers (at a reasonable cost), the cost of taking the public sewers to the point or points is a reasonable cost only if the cost to Scottish Water does not exceed the amount determined by the formula—

where—

“Ucs” is the predicted average amount that sewerage services providers are to be charged by Scottish Water per cubic metre of sewage disposed of during the connection year, calculated using the formula in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1; and

“Vdom” is the relevant figure (expressed in cubic metres per annum) in the table in Schedule 2 which corresponds to the maximum number of persons to be employed at the premises (or, as the case may be, the part of them) in question at any point in the connection year and to whether that premises (or that part of them) has a toilet, shower or canteen (or a combination of these).

(2) In paragraph (1), if the premises (or the part of them) in question has more than one building (or part of a building), “Vdom” is to be construed as the total of the corresponding relevant figures for each building (or, as the case may be, each part of a building) in the table in Schedule 2.