Part V E+W+S Supplementary provisions

Financial provisionsE+W+S

90 Establishment charges and interest in respect of certain expenses of authorities.E+W+S

[F1(1)Where a sum is payable to a water authority by any person by virtue of this Act in respect of the expenses incurred by the authority, the authority shall be entitled to recover from that person such a further sum in respect of its establishment charges as appears to the authority to be reasonable.]

(2)[F2Where such a sum or further sum as is mentioned in the preceding subsection is payable to a water authority by any person or a sum is payable to any other][F2Where a sum is payable to a] relevant authority by any person by virtue of this Act in respect of the expenses incurred by the authority or by virtue of section 36 of the M1Local Government Act 1974 in respect of establishment charges related to such expenses or by virtue of section 193 of the M2Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 in respect of general expenses related to such expenses, then—

(a)the authority and that person may agree that the sum [F3or further sum] shall be paid in instalments; and

(b)the authority shall be entitled to receive from that person interest on the sum [F3or further sum], or on such portion of it as is for the time being unpaid, at [F4such reasonable rate or rates as the authority may determine]

(3)In the application of this section to Scotland, for the references to a water authority there shall be substituted references to [F5SEPA].

Textual Amendments

F2Words commencing “Where a sum” substituted (E.W.) for words commencing “Where such a sum” by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 25 para. 48(9), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58

F5Words in s. 90(3) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 29(30) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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