Part IV SEWERAGE SERVICES

chapter I GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF SEWERAGE UNDERTAKERS etc

Principal duties and standards of performance

95AF1Information with respect to levels of performance.

(1)

F2The Authority shall from time to time collect information with respect to—

(a)

the compensation paid by sewerage undertakers under regulations under section 95(2) above; F3...

F4(aa)

the compensation paid by sewerage licensees under regulations under section 95ZA(2); and

(b)

the levels of overall performance achieved by sewerage undertakers F5or sewerage licensees in connection with the provision of sewerage services.

(2)

At such times as F2the Authority may direct, each sewerage undertaker shall give the following information to F2the Authority —

(a)

as respects each standard prescribed by regulations under section 95(2) above, the number of cases in which compensation was paid and the aggregate amount or value of that compensation; and

(b)

as respects each standard established by regulations under section 95(1)(b) above, such information with respect to the level of performance achieved by the undertaker as may be so specified.

F6(2A)

At such times as the Authority may direct, each sewerage licensee is to give the following information to the Authority—

(a)

as respects each standard established by regulations under section 95ZA(1), such information with respect to the level of performance achieved by the licensee as may be specified in the direction;

(b)

as respects each standard prescribed by regulations under section 95ZA(2), the number of cases in which compensation was paid and the aggregate amount or value of that compensation.

F7(3)

The requirements in subsections (2) and (2A) are enforceable by the Authority under section 18.

(4)

F2The Authority shall, at least once in every year, arrange for the publication, in such form and in such manner as he considers appropriate, of such of the information collected by or given to him under this section as it may appear to him expedient to give to customers or potential customers of sewerage undertakers F8or sewerage licensees.

(5)

In arranging for the publication of any such information F2the Authority shall have regard to the need for excluding, so far as practicable—

(a)

any matter which relates to the affairs of an individual, where publication of that matter would or might, in the opinion of F2the Authority, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that individual; and

(b)

any matter which relates specifically to the affairs of a particular body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, where publication of that matter would or might, in the opinion of F2the Authority, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that body.