Statutory Instruments
2017 No. 58 (C. 6)
Water Industry, England And Wales
The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017
Made
25th January 2017
The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 91(1) and 94(3) of the Water Act 2014( 1 ).
Citation and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017.
(2) In this Order—
“the 1991 Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991( 2 );
“the 2014 Act” means the Water Act 2014.
Provisions of the 2014 Act coming into force on 6th March 2017
2. The following provisions of the 2014 Act come into force on 6th March 2017—
(a) section 32 (interim duty: sewerage services) so far as it inserts section 110K into the 1991 Act;
(b) section 56 (further amendments) so far as it relates to paragraph (c);
(c) paragraph 64 of Schedule 7 (further amendments).
Transitional provisions
3. —(1) The time specified in a notice served on a water undertaker under section 63AA(1) or section 63AB(1) of the 1991 Act( 3 ) after which the undertaker will no longer be required to provide a supply of water to the premises must not be before 1st April 2017.
(2) The time specified in a notice served on a sewerage undertaker under section 110K(1) of the 1991 Act( 4 ) after which the undertaker will no longer be required to provide sewerage services to the premises must not be before 1st April 2017.
Thérèse Coffey
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
25th January 2017
2014 c.21 . The power in section 94(3) to appoint a day on which the remaining provisions of the 2014 Act come into force is vested in the “appropriate authority”. Section 94(6) provides that the appropriate authority is the Secretary of State except as stated in the table in Schedule 12.
Sections 63AA and 63AB were inserted by paragraph 17 of Schedule 8 to the Water Act 2003 (c.37) and amended by paragraphs 63 and 64 respectively of Schedule 7 to the 2014 Act.
Section 110K as inserted by the 2014 Act in accordance with this Order.