PART IPRELIMINARY
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st July 1999.
2
In these Regulations–
“the Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991;
“approved contractor” means a person who–
- a
has been approved by the water undertaker for the area where a water fitting is installed or used, or
- b
has been certified as an approved contractor by an organization specified in writing by the regulator;
- a
“the Directive” means Council Directive 89/106/EEC on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the member States relating to construction products2;
“EEA Agreement” means the agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 19923 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 19934;
“EEA State” means a State which is a contracting party to the EEA Agreement;
“European technical approval” means a favourable technical assessment of the fitness for use of a construction product for an intended use, issued for the purposes of the Directive by a body authorised by an EEA State to issue European technical approvals for those purposes and notified by that State to the European Commission;
“fluid category” means a category of fluid described in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;
“harmonized standard” means a standard established as mentioned in the Directive by the European standards organisation on the basis of a mandate given by the Commission of the European Economic Community and published by the Commission in the Official Journal of the European Communities;
“material change of use” means a change in the purpose for which, or the circumstances in which, premises are used, such that after that change the premises are used (where previously they were not so used)–
- i
as a dwelling;
- ii
as an institution;
- iii
as a public building; or
- iv
for the purposes of the storage or use of substances which if mixed with water result in a fluid which is classified as either fluid category 4 or 5;
- i
“regulator” means–
- a
in relation to any water undertakers whose area of appointment is wholly or mainly in Wales and their area of appointment, the National Assembly of Wales;
- b
in relation to all other water undertakers and their area of appointment, the Secretary of State;
- a
“supply pipe” means so much of any service pipe as is not vested in the water undertaker;
and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 has effect for the purposes of that Schedule.