Water Act 2014 (c. 21)

SCHEDULES

Prospective

SCHEDULE 5 E+W Extension of licensing provisions in relation to Wales

39 (1) Section 95ZA (standards of performance in connection with provision of sewerage services: sewerage licensees) (inserted by section 30) is amended as follows. E+W

(2) In the following places—

(a) the opening words of subsection (1),

(b) subsection (1)(b)(i), and

(c) subsection (2),

for “Secretary of State” there is substituted “ Minister ”.

(3) In subsection (2), for “Secretary of State's” there is substituted “Minister's”.

(4) After subsection (5) there is inserted—

“(6) In this section—

• “the Minister” means—

  (a)

  the Secretary of State, in respect of the provision of services by a sewerage licensee in accordance with the licensee's retail authorisation using the sewerage system of a sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England;

  (b)

  the Welsh Ministers, in respect of the provision of services by a sewerage licensee in accordance with the licensee's retail authorisation using the sewerage system of a sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in Wales;

• “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister.”