Explanatory Notes

Water Act 2014

2014 CHAPTER 21

14 May 2014

Commentary

Part 1.Water Industry

Chapter 4.Retail Exit: Non-Household Premises
Section 45: Transfer of undertaking

187.Section 45 allows exit regulations to provide for a scheme for transferring property, rights and liabilities where an exit application has been granted. A transfer scheme would need to deal with charges to undertakers’ non-household customers, previously covered under Chapter 1 of Part 5 of the WIA. The scheme could treat a liability to pay under statute as being a liability under an agreement.