The Authority must issue rules about charges that may be imposed by sewerage undertakers under a section 117E agreement.
The rules may in particular make provision about—
The rules must include provision for and in connection with requiring a sewerage undertaker to impose on a sewerage licensee only such charges as would enable the licensee, where the services it provides to a person under its retail authorisation are services to which a section 142(2)(b) agreement would apply if the undertaker had continued to provide the services, to charge for those services at the same rate or rates as would have applied if the section 142(2)(b) agreement had applied.
In subsection (3) "section 142(2)(b) agreement" means an agreement to which section 142(2)(b) applies.
If the Authority considers that a sewerage undertaker is not acting as required by rules under this section, the Authority may—
It is the duty of a sewerage undertaker or a sewerage licensee to comply with a direction under subsection (5), and this duty is enforceable by the Authority under section 18.
The rules may—
The Authority may from time to time revise rules issued under this section and issue revised rules.
The Authority must issue revised rules if—
Revised rules may include provision for applying any of the revisions to section 117E agreements made before the revised rules come into effect.