Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 E+W SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION ORDERS

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 3 applied (28.6.2013) by The Water Industry (Specified Infrastructure Projects) (English Undertakers) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1582), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 7(4) (with reg. 1(1)(c))

Part I E+W MODIFICATIONS OF THE 1986 ACT

Discharge of order E+W

7 (1) Section 18 of the 1986 Act (discharge and variation of administration order), as applied by this Part of this Schedule, shall have effect as follows. E+W

(2) For subsections (1) and (2) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

“(1) An application for a special administration order to be discharged may be made—

(a) by the special administrator, on the ground that the purposes of the order have been achieved; or

(b) by the Secretary of State or, with the consent of the Secretary of State, the Director General of Water Services, on the ground that it is no longer necessary that those purposes are achieved.”

(3) In subsection (3), the words “or vary” shall be omitted.

(4) In subsection (4), the words “or varied” and “or variation” shall be omitted and for the words “to the registrar of companies” there shall be substituted—

F1 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) F2 ... the words “to the registrar of companies and to the Director General of Water Services”.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 para. 7(4)(a) and word omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(r), Sch. 23 para. 28(4)(e)(iv)

F2 Words in Sch. 3 para. 7(4)(b) omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(r), Sch. 23 para. 28(4)(e)(v)