The Water Quality and Supply (Fees) (Undertakers Wholly or Mainly in Wales) Order 2016

Title and commencement

1.  The title of this Order is the Water Quality and Supply (Fees) (Undertakers Wholly or Mainly in Wales) Order 2016 and it comes into force on 8 September 2016.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1991 Act” (“Deddf 1991”) means the Water Industry Act 1991;

“inspector” (“arolygydd”) means a person appointed under section 86(1) of the 1991 Act (assessors for the enforcement of water quality)(1);

“relevant water supplier” (“cyflenwr dŵr perthnasol”) means—

(a)

a company appointed as a water undertaker(2) whose area is wholly or mainly in Wales; or

(b)

a company which is the holder of a water supply licence within the meaning of section 17A of the 1991 Act(3) (licensing of water suppliers) which is using the supply system(4) of a water undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in Wales.

Fees

3.—(1) The Chief Inspector of Drinking Water(5) may charge a relevant water supplier a fee, payable on invoice, for the exercise of the functions in column 1 of the table in the Schedule by an inspector.

(2) The amount of the fee charged under paragraph (1) is to be determined in accordance with the fee listed in column 2 of the table in the Schedule in relation to that function.

(3) If a function specified in paragraph (b), (c) or (d) in column 1 of the table in the Schedule is exercised by more than one inspector, the time taken by each inspector must be aggregated for the purpose of calculating the amount of the fee that is payable.

Revocation and savings

4.—(1) The Public Bodies (Water Supply and Water Quality) (Inspection Fees) Order 2012(6) (“the 2012 Order”) is revoked.

(2) The 2012 Order continues to have effect in relation to the exercise by an inspector of a function listed in column 1 of the table in the Schedule to that Order before 8 September 2016.

Lesley Griffiths

Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers

9 August 2016