F1PART IIIA Promotion of the Efficient Use of Water
93A Duty to promote the efficient use of water.
(1)
(2)
The duty of a water undertaker F2or F5water supply licensee under this section shall be enforceable under section 18 above—
(a)
by the Secretary of State; or
(b)
with the consent of or in accordance with a general authorisation given by the Secretary of State, by F6the Authority.
(3)
93B Power of Authority to impose requirements on water undertakers.
(1)
F6The Authority may require a water undertaker F9or F10water supply licensee, in F11the performance of that undertaker's or licensee's duty under section 93A above, to—
(a)
take any such action; or
(b)
achieve any such overall standards of performance,
as F6it may specify in the document imposing the requirement.
(2)
Where F6the Authority, in the document imposing a requirement on a water undertaker F12or F13water supply licensee under subsection (1) above, stipulates that any contravention of the requirement by the undertaker F14or licensee will be a breach of F15the undertaker's or licensee's duty under section 93A above, any contravention of that requirement by the undertaker shall be a breach of that duty.
(3)
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, a requirement under that subsection may—
(a)
(b)
require a water undertaker F16or F17water supply licensee to provide or make available to F18that person's customers or potential customers such information as may be specified in the document imposing the requirement, and may specify the form in which, the times at which or the frequency with which any such information is to be provided or made available.
(4)
(5)
(6)
Nothing in this section authorises F6the Authority to impose any requirement on a water undertaker F25or F26water supply licensee which has or may have the effect of authorising or requiring that undertaker F27or licensee to impose any requirement on any of F28that person's customers or potential customers.
93C Publicity of requirements imposed under section 93B.
(1)
Where, under section 93B(1) above, the Authority imposes any requirement on a water undertaker F29or F30water supply licensee, F6the Authority may arrange for that requirement to be publicised in any such manner as he may consider appropriate for the purpose of bringing it to the attention of that undertaker’s F31or licensee's customers.
(2)
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, F6the Authority may arrange for such publicising of the requirement as is mentioned in that subsection by—
(a)
F6itself publicising the requirement or causing it to be publicised; or
(b)
directing the undertaker F32or licensee to inform or arrange to inform its customers of the requirement.
93D Information as to compliance with requirements under section 93B.
(1)
Where a water undertaker F33or F34water supply licensee is subject to any requirement imposed under section 93B(1) above, the Authority may arrange for there to be given to the customers of that undertaker F35or licensee at any such times or with such frequency, and in any such manner, as F6it may consider appropriate, such information about the level of performance achieved by the undertaker F35or licensee in relation to that requirement as appears to F6the Authority to be expedient to be given to those customers.
(2)
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, F6the Authority may arrange for such giving of information as is mentioned in that subsection by—
(a)
F6itself disseminating the information or causing it to be disseminated; or
(b)
directing the undertaker F36or licensee to give or arrange to give the information to its customers.
(3)
At such times and in such form or manner as F6the Authority may direct, a water undertaker F37or F38water supply licensee shall provide F6the Authority with such information as may be specified in the direction in connection with the undertaker’s F39or licensee's performance in relation to any requirement imposed upon the undertaker F40or licensee under section 93B(1) above.