Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

105 Requisitioning of sewers

In section 16 of the [1973 c. 37.] Water Act 1973 (water authority's duty to provide sewer)—

(a) at the end of subsection (1)(b) there shall be added “or (bb) if—

(i) the Land Authority for Wales are the owners of the premises at the relevant time; and

(ii) the Land Authority require the authority to provide a public sewer for the drainage of new buildings proposed to be erected on the premises by any person; and

(iii) the conditions mentioned in subsection (3) below (as modified by subsection (3 A) below) are satisfied ; or”;

(b) in subsection (3), after the words " paragraph (b) " there shall be inserted the words " or, subject to subsection (3A) below, paragraph (bb) ";

(c) the following subsection shall be inserted after that subsection:—

“(3A) Where the Land Authority for Wales are the owners of the premises at the relevant time, subsection (3)(a) above shall have effect as if the words " or by any other person " were inserted after the word " owners " , in the second place where it occurs.”; and

(d) at the end of subsection (11) there shall be added " and " relevant time " in relation to land owned by the Land Authority for Wales, means the time when the Land Authority require the water authority to provide a public sewer as mentioned in subsection (1)(bb) above.".