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Water Infrastructure Adoption (Prescribed Water Fittings Requirements) (England) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 841 of 2017).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
England
Document type
Regulation
Date
2017
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Water
Keyword
Water supply Waterworks
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations, made under the Water Industry Act 1991, prescribe, for the purposes of section 51B(6) of the Water Industry Act 1991, those statutory requirements as being regulations 3 and 4 of the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999 (made under section 74 of the 1991 Act). The requirements include general quality and standards of the mains or pipes and standards of workmanship, as well as the prevention of waste, misuse, undue consumption or contamination of the water supplied. Section 51A of the Act provides that a water undertaker may agree with a person constructing or proposing to construct a water main or service pipe that it will adopt the main or pipe under certain conditions. If such agreement cannot be reached, under section 51B either the undertaker or the developer may request that the Water Services Regulation Authority require the undertaker to adopt the main or pipe. However, the Authority may not require this if there is a contravention of prescribed statutory requirements imposed under section 74 of the 1991 Act.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Water Industry Act 1991 (Chapter 56).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1991

Keyword: Water supply, Sewerage, Institution, Waterworks, Potable water, Effluent waste water/discharge, Water charges, Industrial water use, Irrigation, Access-to-information, Pollution control, Freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX