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Statutory Instruments
2017 No. 926 (C. 78)
Water Industry, England And Wales
The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2017
Made
18th September 2017
The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 94(3) of the Water Act 2014( 1 ).
Citation
1. This Order may be cited as the Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2017.
Amendment of the Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017
2. —(1)The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017( 2 ) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (d) of article 4 (provisions of the 2014 Act coming into force on 1st October 2017), for sub-paragraphs (ii) to (iv) substitute—
“ (ii) paragraph 92 so far as it relates to a sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England;
(iii) paragraph 95 so far as it relates to a sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England;
(iv) paragraph 98 as follows—
(aa) sub-paragraph (1) so far as it relates to paragraph (bb);
(bb) sub-paragraph (2) so far as it relates to a sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England. ” .
(3) In paragraph (e) of article 5 (provisions of the 2014 Act coming into force on 1st April 2018)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (i), for “and (iii)” substitute “to (iv)”;
(b) at the end of sub-paragraph (ii), insert “so far as they relate to a water undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England”;
(c) for sub-paragraph (iii) substitute—
“ (iii) paragraphs 87 and 88 so far as they relate to a sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England;
(iv) paragraph 89 as follows—
(aa) sub-paragraph (a);
(bb) sub-paragraph (b) so far as it relates to a sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England. ” .
Thérèse Coffey
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
18th September 2017
2014 c. 21 . The power in section 94(3) to appoint a day on which the remaining provisions of the Water Act 2014 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.