PART IIIA Promotion of the Efficient Use of Water

93B Power of F1Authority to impose requirements on water undertakers.

(1)

F1The Authority may require a water undertaker F2or F3water supply licensee, in F4the performance of that undertaker's or licensee's duty under section 93A above, to—

(a)

take any such action; or

(b)

achieve any such overall standards of performance,

as F1it may specify in the document imposing the requirement.

(2)

Where F1the Authority, in the document imposing a requirement on a water undertaker F5or F6water supply licensee under subsection (1) above, stipulates that any contravention of the requirement by the undertaker F7or licensee will be a breach of F8the undertaker's or licensee's duty under section 93A above, any contravention of that requirement by the undertaker shall be a breach of that duty.

(3)

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, a requirement under that subsection may—

(a)

require a water undertaker F9or F10water supply licensee to make available to F11that person's customers or potential customers such facilities as may be specified in the document imposing the requirement;

(b)

require a water undertaker F9or F10water supply licensee to provide or make available to F11that person's customers or potential customers such information as may be specified in the document imposing the requirement, and may specify the form in which, the times at which or the frequency with which any such information is to be provided or made available.

(4)

In exercising F1its powers under this section in relation to any water undertaker F12or F13water supply licensee F1the Authority shall have regard to the extent to which water resources are available to that undertaker F14or licensee.

(5)

Before imposing any requirement on a water undertaker F15or F16water supply licensee under subsection (1) above F1the Authority shall consult that undertaker F17or licensee.

(6)

Nothing in this section authorises F1the Authority to impose any requirement on a water undertaker F18or F19water supply licensee which has or may have the effect of authorising or requiring that undertaker F20or licensee to impose any requirement on any of F21that person's customers or potential customers.