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14(1)Where immediately before the transfer date any water authority are under a duty by virtue of a requirement under section 16 of the 1973 Act (sewer requisitions) to provide a sewer, that duty shall continue on and after that date as if it—
(a)were a duty under section 71 of this Act owed to the person who required the provision of the sewer or, as the case may be, to each of the persons who joined in doing so; and
(b)were so owed by the sewerage undertaker for the area which immediately before that date is the water authority’s area for the purposes of section 14 of that Act.
(2)Where—
(a)any person has under section 16 of the 1973 Act at any time before the transfer date required a water authority to provide a sewer; but
(b)no duty has arisen under that section before that date in respect of that requirement,
that requirement shall have effect on and after that date as a requirement under section 71 of this Act for the provision of a public sewer by the sewerage undertaker for the area which immediately before that date is the water authority’s area for the purposes of section 14 of that Act.
(3)Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below, where any rights or liabilities of a water authority in respect of any agreement or undertaking entered into before the transfer date for the purposes of section 16 of the 1973 Act, or in respect of any sums deposited with them before that date for those purposes, are transferred in accordance with a scheme under Schedule 2 to this Act to the authority’s successor company, those rights and liabilities shall continue to have effect, on and after that date, as rights and liabilities of that company and, in the case of any such right which was subject to subsection (5) of that section (twelve year limit on payments), shall continue to be so subject notwithstanding the repeal of that section.
(4)On and after the transfer date subsection (8) of section 72 of this Act shall apply, as it applies in relation to the sums mentioned in that subsection, in relation to sums deposited under subsection (6) of section 16 of the 1973 Act.
(5)Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of section 16 of the 1973 Act, subsection (10) of that section (determination of certain matters by referee) shall continue to have effect on and after the transfer date for the purposes of anything saved by sub-paragraph (1) or (3) above.
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