Water Act 2003

Water resale

59Charges for services provided with the help of an undertaker

(1)Section 150 of the WIA (fixing maximum charges for services provided with the help of undertakers' services) is amended as follows.

(2)After subsection (2) there is inserted—

(2A)An order under this section may require the person providing the supplies or services to furnish the person who is provided with them with such information as may be specified or described in the order.

(2B)An order containing such a requirement may also provide that, in the event of the failure of the person providing the supplies or services to furnish that information, the maximum charges he is entitled to recover from the person provided with them in respect of those supplies or services shall be such as may be fixed by the order.

(3)In subsection (5), for the words from “the amount of the excess” to the end there is substituted—

(a)the amount of the excess; and

(b)if the order so provides, interest on that amount at a rate specified or described in the order,

shall be recoverable by that person from the person to whom he paid the charge.