86(1)Section 96A (information to be given to customers about overall performance) is amended as follows.E+W
(2)In subsection (1), after “customers” there is inserted “ , and, if the direction so specifies, sewerage licensees using the undertaker's sewerage system for the purpose of providing sewerage services to the premises of customers, ”.
(3)After subsection (1) there is inserted—
“(1A)Each sewerage licensee must, in such form and manner and with such frequency as the Authority may direct, take steps to inform the licensee's customers of—
(a)the standards of overall performance established under section 95ZA(1) which are applicable to that licensee;
(b)that licensee's level of performance as regards those standards.
(1B)The Authority may direct that the requirement in subsection (1A) is not to apply to such sewerage licensees as may be specified in the direction.”
(4)In subsection (2), for “any such direction” there is substituted “ a direction under subsection (1) or (1A) ”.
(5)After subsection (2) there is inserted—
“(2A)The sewerage licensees referred to in subsection (1) shall, if the Authority so directs, pass on the information about the matters mentioned in that subsection to their customers.
(2B)In subsection (1), the reference to the sewerage undertaker's sewerage system is to be construed in accordance with section 17BA(7).”
(6)In subsection (3), after “undertaker” there is inserted “ or sewerage licensee ”.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 7 para. 86 in force at 1.4.2016 by S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(m), Sch. 1 para. 1(p) (with Sch. 2)