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Water Industry Act 1991, Section 93 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 28 February 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.

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93 Interpretation of Part III.E+W
(1)In this Part—
“connection notice” shall be construed in accordance with section 45(8) above;
“consumer”, in relation to a supply of water provided by a water undertaker to any premises, means (except in Chapter IV) a person who is for the time being the person on whom liability to pay charges to the undertaker in respect of that supply of water would fall;
“food production purposes” means the manufacturing, processing, preserving or marketing purposes with respect to food or drink for which water supplied to food production premises may be used, and for the purposes of this definition “food production premises” means premises used for the purposes of a business of preparing food or drink for consumption otherwise than on the premises;
“necessary works” includes works carried out, in exercise of any power conferred by or under any enactment, by a person other than a water undertaker;
“private supply” means, subject to subsection (2) below, a supply of water provided otherwise than by a water undertaker [or by a [water supply licensee] in accordance with Chapter 1A of Part 2 of this Act] (including a supply provided for the purposes of the bottling of water), and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
“private supply notice” shall be construed in accordance with section 80(7) above;
“water fittings” includes pipes (other than water mains), taps, cocks, valves, ferrules, meters, cisterns, baths, water closets, soil pans and other similar apparatus used in connection with the supply and use of water;
“wholesome” and cognate expressions shall be construed subject to the provisions of any regulations made under section 67 above.
(2)For the purposes of any reference in this Part to a private supply, or to supplying water by means of a private supply, water shall be treated as supplied to any premises not only where it is supplied from outside those premises, but also where it is abstracted, for the purpose of being used or consumed on those premises, from a source which is situated on the premises themselves; and for the purposes of this subsection water shall be treated as used on any premises where it is bottled on those premises for use or consumption elsewhere.
(3)For the purposes of this Part a service pipe shall be treated as connected with a water main other than a trunk main even if the connection is an indirect connection made by virtue of a connection with another service pipe.
(4)The rights conferred by virtue of this Part as against the owner or occupier of any premises shall be without prejudice to any rights and obligations, as between themselves, of the owner and occupier of the premises.
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