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[^f00001].

Citation

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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

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• (1) The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017[^f00002] 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.

Signed

Thérèse Coffey — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 18th September 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/462 (C. 41)) so that the commencement of certain provisions of Schedule 7 to the Water Act 2014 (c. 21) only applies to wholly or mainly English water or sewerage undertakers and does not apply to wholly or mainly Welsh water or sewerage undertakers.

Impact assessments of the effect that the Water Act 2014 will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector are available from the Water Services Team, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR and are published alongside the Water Act 2014 at www.legislation.gov.uk. No separate impact assessment has been produced for this instrument.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2017/462 (C. 41).