This section applies where a sewerage licensee with a disposal authorisation ("L") requests a sewerage undertaker to permit L to remove matter from the undertaker's sewerage system.
Where this section applies, the sewerage undertaker must in accordance with a section 117E agreement—
Where—
the failure of the undertaker to acquire the necessary authority or agreement does not affect the liability of the licensee to reimburse the undertaker in respect of some or all of the expenses incurred by it in taking those steps, if the section 117E agreement provides for such liability as regards those steps.
A pipe connecting a sewerage undertaker's sewerage system to a sewage disposal works that is laid because of subsection (2)(a) is to be regarded as a disposal main for the purposes of this Act, subject to any provision to the contrary.
In this section, a reference to a disposal authorisation is to be construed in accordance with Schedule 2B.