Part IIE+W APPOINTMENTMENT AND REGULATION OF UNDERTAKERS

[F1CHAPTER 1AE+W [F2Water supply licences and sewerage licences]

Textual Amendments

F1Pt. 2 Ch. 1A inserted (1.4.2004 for specified provisions and purposes and 1.8.2005 for further specified provisions and purposes and 1.10.2005 for further specified provisions and 1.12.2005 otherwise) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 56, 105(3), Sch. 4 para. 2; S.I. 2004/641, art. 3(l), Sch. 1 (with art. 6, Sch. 3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 3(b) (with savings in art. 4, Sch. 1, 2); S.I. 2005/2714, arts. 2(h), 3(a) (with Sch. para. 5)

F2Pt. 2 Ch. 1A heading substituted (1.4.2016) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 7 para. 9; S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(m), Sch. 1 para. 1(e) (with Sch. 2) (as amended (22.3.2017) by S.I. 2017/462, art. 16)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Granting of licencesE+W

17EDeterminations by the AuthorityE+W

[F3(1)The Authority may determine, in a case referred to it by—

(a)a water supply licensee or a potential customer of a water supply licensee, or

(b)a sewerage licensee or a potential customer of a sewerage licensee,

whether a proposed supply of water to, or proposed sewerage services for, the customer would be in accordance with what is authorised by the licensee's licence.]

(2)The matters which the Authority may determine include the following matters—

(a)the extent of the premises to be supplied for the purposes of [F4paragraph 4 or 7(a) or (b) of Schedule 2A];

[F5(aa)the extent of the premises to be served for the purposes of paragraph 2 of Schedule 2B;]

(b)whether the premises to be supplied [F6or served] are household premises (as defined in section 17C above); and

(c)whether the threshold requirement is satisfied in relation to the premises to be supplied (construed in accordance with section 17D above),

and also include any other matter the determination of which is relevant to those matters.]

Textual Amendments

F3S. 17E(1) substituted (1.4.2016) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 7 para. 14(2); S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(m), Sch. 1 para. 1(h) (with Sch. 2) (as amended (22.3.2017) by S.I. 2017/462, art. 16)

F4Words in s. 17E(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2016) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 7 para. 14(3)(a); S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(m), Sch. 1 para. 1(h) (with Sch. 2) (as amended (22.3.2017) by S.I. 2017/462, art. 16)

F5S. 17E(2)(aa) inserted (1.4.2016) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 7 para. 14(3)(b); S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(m), Sch. 1 para. 1(h) (with Sch. 2) (as amended (22.3.2017) by S.I. 2017/462, art. 16)

F6Words in s. 17E(2)(b) inserted (1.4.2016) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 7 para. 14(3)(c); S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(m), Sch. 1 para. 1(h) (with Sch. 2) (as amended (22.3.2017) by S.I. 2017/462, art. 16)