Transitional provision in respect of wholesale authorisations
3.—(1) Until paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act comes into force to the extent that it substitutes section 66B(1) of the 1991 Act, the Authority must not grant a water supply licence with a wholesale authorisation under section 17A(1) of the 1991 Act(1).
(2) The restriction in paragraph (1) does not apply if a water supply licence with a wholesale authorisation is granted to—
(a)a person who has a water supply licence with a retail authorisation; or
(b)a person who has applied for a water supply licence with a retail authorisation.
(1)
Section 17A was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Water Act 2003 (c.37), and substituted by section 1(1) of the 2014 Act.