Part II APPOINTMENTMENT AND REGULATION OF UNDERTAKERS

C1C3C4C2F1CHAPTER 1AF3Water supply licences and sewerage licences

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Amendments (Textual)
F1

Pt. 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)

F3

Pt. 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 licences

17FBF2Applications forwarded to the Water Industry Commission for Scotland

1

If the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied, the Authority must—

a

forward to the Commission a copy of an application under section 17F for the grant of a water supply licence or sewerage licence, and

b

send to the Commission such information and such fee as appear to the Authority to be required in order that the application may be treated by the Commission as a 2005 Act application for the grant of—

i

a water services licence under section 6 of the 2005 Act, or

ii

a sewerage services licence under section 6 of the 2005 Act, as the case may be.

2

The conditions are that—

a

the Authority is requested to do so by the applicant;

b

the application under section 17F appears to the Authority to be an application that would be treated by the Commission as a 2005 Act application for the grant of—

i

a water services licence under section 6 of the 2005 Act, or

ii

a sewerage services licence under section 6 of the 2005 Act, as the case may be;

c

the applicant has given the Authority—

i

such information as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b), and

ii

a means of sending to the Commission such fee as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b).

3

The Authority must—

a

forward a copy of the application, and

b

send such information and fee as are mentioned in subsection (1)(b),

before the end of the agreed period for an application of that description.

4

In this section—

  • “the agreed period”, in relation to an application under section 17F of a particular description, means the period agreed between the Authority and the Commission as the period applying to an application of that description for the purposes of subsection (3);

  • “the Commission” means the Water Industry Commission for Scotland.