Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005

[F1 1B (1) If the conditions in sub-paragraph (2) are satisfied, the Commission must— S

(a) forward to the Authority a copy of an application under paragraph 1 for the grant of a water services licence or sewerage services licence;

(b) send to the Authority such information, documents and fee as appear to the Commission to be required in order that the application may be treated by the Authority as an application under section 17F of the 1991 Act for the grant of—

(i) a water supply licence giving a retail authorisation or a restricted retail authorisation or both, or

(ii) a sewerage licence giving a retail authorisation,

as the case may be.

(2) The conditions are that—

(a) the Commission is requested to do so by the applicant;

(b) the application under paragraph 1 appears to the Commission to be an application that would be treated by the Authority as an application under section 17F of the 1991 Act for the grant of—

(i) a water supply licence giving a retail authorisation or a restricted retail authorisation or both, or

(ii) a sewerage licence giving a retail authorisation,

as the case may be;

(c) the applicant has given the Commission—

(i) such information and documents as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b), and

(ii) a means of sending to the Authority such fee as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b).

(3) The Commission must—

(a) forward a copy of the application, and

(b) send such information, documents and fee as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b),

before the end of the agreed period for an application of that description.

(4) In this paragraph—

• “ the agreed period ”, in relation to an application under paragraph 1 of a particular description, means the period agreed between the Commission and the Authority as the period applying to an application of that description for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3);

• “ the Authority ” means the Water Services Regulation Authority. ]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 paras. 1A, 1B and cross-headings inserted (20.11.2015 for the insertion of Sch. 2 para. 1A, 1.4.2016 in so far as not already in force) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), ss. 7(2), 94(3); S.S.I. 2015/360, art. 2(a); S.S.I. 2016/48, art. 2