The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision about—
treating a 2005 Act application for the grant of a water services licence under section 6 of the 2005 Act as being also an application under section 17F for the grant of a water supply licence giving only a retail authorisation or a restricted retail authorisation or both;
treating a 2005 Act application for the grant of a sewerage services licence under section 6 of the 2005 Act as being also an application under section 17F for the grant of a sewerage licence giving only a retail authorisation.
The regulations may in particular make provision about—
the circumstances in which, and the conditions subject to which, a 2005 Act application is to be treated as an application under section 17F for a water supply or sewerage licence giving a particular authorisation or particular authorisations;
the time at which an application is to be treated as having been made;
the processing of an application by the Authority.
Provision under subsection (2)(a) may require a 2005 Act application that is forwarded to the Authority—
to contain, or to be accompanied by, such information or information of such description as is specified by the regulations;
to be accompanied by such documents or documents of such descriptions as are specified by the regulations;
to be accompanied by a fee, or a fee of a description, specified by the regulations.
In this section and section 17FB—
"the 2005 Act" means the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005;
"2005 Act application" means an application under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2005 Act.