Part II APPOINTMENTMENT AND REGULATION OF UNDERTAKERS

F1CHAPTER 1AWater supply licences and sewerage licences

Licence conditions

17RF2Modification by order under other enactments

(1)

Where the F3CMA or the Secretary of State (the “relevant authority”) makes a relevant order, the order may also provide for the modification of—

F4(a)

the conditions of a particular water supply or sewerage licence,

(b)

the standard conditions of water supply licences or sewerage licences, or

(c)

the standard conditions of water supply licences or sewerage licences that grant a particular authorisation or combination of authorisations,

to such extent as may appear to the relevant authority to be requisite or expedient for the purpose of giving effect to, or taking account of, any provision made by the order.

(2)

In subsection (1) above “relevant order” means—

(a)

an order under section 75, 83 or 84 of, or paragraph 5, 10 or 11 of Schedule 7 to, the Enterprise Act 2002 where—

(i)

one or more than one of the enterprises which have, or may have, ceased to be distinct enterprises was engaged in the carrying on of activities authorised or regulated by F5a water supply licence or sewerage licence; or

(ii)

one or more than one of the enterprises which will or may cease to be distinct enterprises is engaged in the carrying on of activities authorised or regulated by F6a water supply licence or sewerage licence; or

(b)

an order under section 160 or 161 of that Act where the feature, or combination of features, of the market F7or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services which prevents, restricts or distorts competition relates to activities authorised or regulated by F8a water supply licence or sewerage licence.

(3)

The modification under subsection (1)(a) above of part of a standard condition of a particular licence shall not prevent any other part of the condition from continuing to be regarded as a standard condition for the purposes of this Chapter.

(4)

Where at any time the relevant authority modifies under F9subsection (1)(b) or (c) above F10the standard conditions of water supply licences or sewerage licences or of water supply licences or sewerage licences that grant a particular authorisation or combination of authorisations, the relevant authority—

(a)

shall also make (as nearly as may be) the same modifications of those conditions for the purposes of their incorporation in licences of that description granted after that time; and

(b)

may, after consultation with the Authority, make such incidental or consequential modifications as the relevant authority considers necessary or expedient of any conditions of licences of that description granted before that time.

(5)

Where at any time the relevant authority modifies standard conditions of F11water supply licences or sewerage licences under subsection (4)(a) above for the purposes of their incorporation in licences, the relevant authority shall publish those modifications in such manner as the relevant authority considers appropriate.

(6)

Expressions used in subsection (2) above and in Part 3 or 4 of the Enterprise Act 2002 have the same meaning in that subsection as in that Part.