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Water Industry Act 1991

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7(1)Section 18 of the 1986 Act (discharge and variation of administration order), as applied by this Part of this Schedule, shall have effect as follows.

(2)For subsections (1) and (2) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

(1)An application for a special administration order to be discharged may be made—

(a)by the special administrator, on the ground that the purposes of the order have been achieved; or

(b)by the Secretary of State or, with the consent of the Secretary of State, the Director General of Water Services, on the ground that it is no longer necessary that those purposes are achieved.

(3)In subsection (3), the words “or vary” shall be omitted.

(4)In subsection (4), the words “or varied” and “or variation” shall be omitted and for the words “to the registrar of companies” there shall be substituted—

(a)where the company in relation to which the special administration order is made is a statutory water company that is not a limited company, the words “to the Director General of Water Services”; and

(b)in any other case, the words “to the registrar of companies and to the Director General of Water Services”.

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