Part 1Water industry

CHAPTER 1Water supply licences and sewerage licences

Expansion of water supply licensing

I12The supply system of a water undertaker

1

Section 17B of the Water Industry Act 1991 (guidance and interpretation) is amended as follows.

2

After subsection (4) there is inserted—

4A

In this Chapter, references to the supply system of a water undertaker are, in the case of an undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England, references to the system comprising the following—

a

any reservoirs and other places of storage and any treatment works developed or maintained by the water undertaker for the purpose of complying with its duty under section 37, and

b

any water mains and other pipes which it is the water undertaker's duty to develop and maintain by virtue of section 37.

3

In subsection (5) (interpretation of references to the supply system of a water undertaker), after “undertaker are” there is inserted “ , in the case of an undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in Wales, ”.