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Section 17BA: Sewerage licences

Water Industry Act 1991 · 1991 c. 56View on legislation.gov.uk

Part II: APPOINTMENTMENT AND REGULATION OF UNDERTAKERS — CHAPTER 1A: Water supply licences and sewerage licences

The Authority may grant to a person a licence in respect of the use of the sewerage system of a sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England (a "sewerage licence").

A sewerage licence may give the holder of the licence one or more of the following—

a retail authorisation;
a wholesale authorisation;
a disposal authorisation.

Schedule 2B makes provision as to the authorisations.

In the case of each of the authorisations, an authorisation to do a thing is an authorisation to do it in accordance with Chapter 2A of Part 4.

The Authority may exercise the power to grant a sewerage licence only in accordance with a general authorisation given by the Secretary of State.

References in this Act to a sewerage licensee are references to a person that is the holder for the time being of a sewerage licence.

References in this Chapter to the sewerage system of a sewerage undertaker are references to the system comprising—

the system of public sewers, the facilities for emptying public sewers and the sewage disposal works and other facilities for dealing effectually with the contents of public sewers that the undertaker is required to provide by section 94, and
the lateral drains that the undertaker is required to maintain by section 94.

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