SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Further amendments

Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56)

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(1)

Section 17P (competition authority's power of veto following report) is amended as follows.

(2)

For the title there is substituted “ Power of veto following report ”.

(3)

In subsection (7)(b) (persons to be served with notice of modifications proposed), in sub-paragraph (v), at the beginning there is inserted “if the reference relates to water supply licences,”.

(4)

In subsection (10) (power to make incidental and consequential modifications), for “the standard conditions of retail licences or combined licences” there is substituted“—

(a)

the standard conditions of water supply licences or sewerage licences, or

(b)

the standard conditions of water supply licences or sewerage licences that grant a particular authorisation or combination of authorisations,”.

(5)

In subsection (11) (changed standard conditions to be used in new licences)—

(a)

for “retail licences or combined licences” there is substituted “ water supply licences or sewerage licences ”;

(b)

in paragraph (a), for “licences of that description” there is substituted “ water supply licences or, as the case may be, sewerage licences ”;

(c)

after paragraph (b) there is inserted—

“Where the Authority modifies the standard conditions of water supply licences or sewerage licences that grant particular authorisations or combinations of authorisations, paragraph (a) has effect only as regards licences granting the same authorisations or combinations of authorisations.”