http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/29/section/44Flood and Water Management Act 2010An Act to make provision about water, including provision about the management of risks in connection with flooding and coastal erosion.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2025-12-18Expert Participation2025-12-15 Part 2 441An undertaker's charges scheme under section 143 of the Water Industry Act 1991 may include provision designed to reduce charges for individuals who would have difficulty paying in full.2Subsection (1) includes schemes which have the effect of subsidisation by other persons.3The Water Services Regulation Authority's powers under the Water Industry Act 1991 in connection with undertakers' charges schemes under section 143 of that Act are subject to subsections (1) and (2).4The Minister must issue guidance in respect of subsections (1) and (2) which must, in particular, include factors to be taken into account in deciding whether one group of customers should subsidise another; for which purpose the Minister shall have regard to the need to balance the desirability of helping individuals who would have difficulty paying in full with the interests of other customers.5Undertakers and the Authority shall have regard to any guidance issued by the Minister under subsection (4).6“The Minister” means—ain the case of an undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England, the Secretary of State, andbin the case of an undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in Wales, the Welsh Ministers.S. 44 in force at 1.10.2011 by S.I. 2011/2204, art. 3(1)(c)Words in s. 44(3) substituted (18.12.2015) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 7 para. 147; S.I. 2015/1938, art. 2(g)(iii)