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,
”
.