SCHEDULE 26 Transitional Provisions and Savings
Part II Water and Sewerage Services
Water main requisitions
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(1)
Where—
(a)
any water authority have, at any time before the transfer date, been required for the purposes of any of the provisions of sections 36 or 37 of the 1945 Act or of section 29 of Schedule 3 to that Act (water main requisitions) to lay any main or do any other thing for bringing water to any place; and
(b)
the requirement has not been complied with before the transfer date,
then, notwithstanding any repeal made by this Act, the provisions of that Act shall have effect for the purpose of making the water undertaker for the area in which that place is situated liable for any contravention of that requirement occurring on or after the transfer date (including so much of any continuing contravention as occurs on or after that date), and for the purpose of preserving on and after that date the effect of any obligation to make payments, to pay interest or to comply with any undertaking.
(2)
Provisions which have effect for any purpose by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) above shall so have effect as if the water undertaker in question were the same person in law as the water authority and as if any reference in the 1945 Act to water rates or to charges payable under Part III of the 1973 Act included a reference to any charges imposed by virtue of this Act F1or Chapter I of Part V of the Water Industry Act 1991 in respect of the supply of water by that undertaker.