The Water and Sewerage Services to Dwellings (Collection of Unmetered Charges by Local Authority) (Scotland) Order 2014

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1992 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1);

“the Act” means the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002;

“charges scheme” means a scheme approved under section 29A of the Act(2);

“council tax” has the same meaning as it has in Part 2 of the 1992 Act;

“dwelling” has the same meaning as it has in Part 2 of the 1992 Act;

“service year” means each of the financial years beginning in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017;

“the services” means those services provided by Scottish Water for which a local authority must, under article 3, demand and recover the charges payable under a charges scheme;

“sewerage charges” means charges for sewerage services under a charges scheme; and

“water charges” means charges for water services under a charges scheme.

(1)

1992 c.14, as relevantly amended by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39), Schedule 13, paragraph 176, and S.S.I. 2005/51.

(2)

Section 29A was inserted by section 21(1) of the 2005 Act.