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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/43/section/28</dc:identifier><dc:title>Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to make provision with respect to standards of performance and service to customers in relation to the telecommunications, gas supply, electricity supply, water supply and sewerage service industries; to make provision with respect to complaints by, and disputes with, customers in those industries; to make provision with respect to the powers of the regulators of those industries and with respect to related matters; to make provision with respect to the payment of deposits by customers of certain telecommunications operators; to make further provision for facilitating effective competition in certain of those industries; to make provision with respect to mergers of water or sewerage undertakers; to make provision with respect to compliance orders against public gas suppliers; to make a minor correction in section 98 of the Water Industry Act 1991; and for connected purposes.</dc:description><dc:date>1992-03-16</dc:date><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2015-09-17</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2010-04-06</dct:valid>
					
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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/43/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1992/43/body" NumberOfProvisions="76" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictStartDate="2010-04-06"><Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/43/part/I" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1992/43/part/I" NumberOfProvisions="52" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." id="part-I" RestrictStartDate="2003-12-29"><Number>Part I</Number><Title> Standards of Performance and Service to Customers</Title><Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/43/part/I/crossheading/water-supply" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1992/43/part/I/crossheading/water-supply" NumberOfProvisions="7" RestrictExtent="E+W" RestrictStartDate="1992-07-01" id="part-I-crossheading-water-supply"><Title> Water supply</Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="1992-07-01"><Title> Information to be given to customers about overall performance.</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/43/section/28" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1992/43/section/28" id="section-28"><Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="c859795"/>28</Pnumber><P1para><Text>The following section shall be inserted in the <CommentaryRef Ref="c859796"/>Water Industry Act 1991, after section 39—</Text><BlockAmendment TargetClass="primary" TargetSubClass="unknown" Context="main" Format="default"><P1group><Title> Information to be given to customers about overall performance.</Title><P1><Pnumber>39A</Pnumber><P1para><P2><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Each water undertaker shall, in such form and manner and with such frequency as the Director may direct, take steps to inform its customers of—</Text><P3><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the standards of overall performance established under section 38(1)(b) above which are applicable to that undertaker; and</Text></P3para></P3><P3><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>that undertaker’s level of performance as respects each of those standards.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In giving any such direction, the Director shall not specify a frequency of less than once in every period of twelve months.</Text></P2para></P2><P2><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>The duty of a water undertaker to comply with this section shall be enforceable by the Director under section 18 above.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></BlockAmendment></P1para></P1></P1group></Pblock></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c859795" Type="I"><Para><Text><CitationSubRef id="c00104" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1992/43/section/28" SectionRef="section-28">S. 28</CitationSubRef> wholly in force at 1.7.1992 see <CitationSubRef id="c00105" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1992/43/section/56/2" SectionRef="section-56-2">s. 56(2)</CitationSubRef> and Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1992, art. 3, Sch. Pt. I.</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="c859796" Type="M"><Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1991/56" id="c00106" Year="1991" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Number="56">1991 c. 56</Citation>. </Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>