PART 1Citation, commencement and interpretation etc.
Interpretation2
1
In these Regulations—
“the 1991 Act” means the Water Industry Act 19914;
“acquiring licensee” has the meaning given by regulation 6;
“eligible sewerage licensee”, except in regulation 11, means a sewerage licensee whose name appears in the relevant list of eligible sewerage licensees maintained under regulation 58;
“eligible water supply licensee”, except in regulation 11, means a water supply licensee whose name appears in the relevant list of eligible water supply licensees maintained under regulation 43;
“exit application” means an application under regulation 4;
“exit date” has the meaning given by regulation 8;
“local statutory provision” means—
- a
a provision of a local Act (including an Act confirming a provisional order);
- b
a provision of so much of any public general Act as has effect with respect to a particular area, with respect to particular persons or works or with respect to particular provisions falling within any paragraph of this definition;
- c
a provision of an instrument made under any provision falling within paragraph (a) or (b); or
- d
a provision of any other instrument which is in the nature of a local enactment;
- a
“relevant undertaker” means a water undertaker or sewerage undertaker;
“retail authorisation” has the meaning given—
“sewerage services request” has the meaning given by regulation 51(2);
“sewerage system”, in relation to a sewerage undertaker, has the meaning given by section 17BA(7) of the 1991 Act7;
“supply system”, in relation to a water undertaker, has the meaning given by section 17B(4A) of the 1991 Act8;
“transferred premises” has the meaning given by regulation 7;
“transferred customer”, in relation to an acquiring licensee, means a customer whose premises are transferred premises in relation to the licensee;
“transfer scheme” has the meaning given by paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 1;
“water supply request” has the meaning given by regulation 36(2).
2
For the purposes of these Regulations—
a
premises which are outside the area of a water undertaker that is withdrawing, or has withdrawn, from the non-household retail market are to be treated as being within the retail exit area9 if they are supplied with water using the undertaker’s supply system;
b
premises which are within the area of a water undertaker that is withdrawing, or has withdrawn, from the non-household retail market are to be treated as being outside the retail exit area if they are supplied with water using another undertaker’s supply system; and
c
any pipes of a water undertaker which are used for the purpose of supplying premises as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) are to be treated as being part of that undertaker’s supply system (if they would not otherwise be part of it).
3
For the purposes of these Regulations—
a
premises which are outside the area of a sewerage undertaker that is withdrawing, or has withdrawn, from the non-household retail market are to be treated as being within the retail exit area if they are provided with sewerage services using the undertaker’s sewerage system;
b
premises which are within the area of a sewerage undertaker that is withdrawing, or has withdrawn, from the non-household retail market are to be treated as being outside the retail exit area if they are supplied with sewerage services using another undertaker’s sewerage system; and
c
any sewers or drains of a sewerage undertaker which are used for the purpose of serving premises as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) are to be treated as being part of that undertaker’s sewerage system (if they would not otherwise be part of it).
4
Except where the context otherwise requires, expressions used in these Regulations have the same meaning as in the 1991 Act.