Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 heading substituted (15.6.2020 at 5.38 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Persons Travelling to Wales etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/595), regs. 1(3), 10(3)(a) (with reg. 11)
Textual Amendments
F2Words in Sch. 2 Pt. 2 heading substituted (15.6.2020 at 5.38 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Persons Travelling to Wales etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/595), regs. 1(3), 10(3)(c) (with reg. 11)
17.—(1) A worker engaged in essential or emergency works—E+W
(a)related to water supplies and sewerage services, and
(b)carried out by, for, or on behalf of a water undertaker, sewerage undertaker, water supply licensee, sewerage licensee or local authority,
where the worker has travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of the work.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—
(a)“essential or emergency works” includes—
(i)inspections, maintenance, repairs, and asset replacement activities,
(ii)monitoring, sampling and analysis of water supplies under the Private Water Supplies (Wales) Regulations 2017 M1, the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2018 M2, the Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016 M3 or the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2016 M4,
(b)“sewerage licensee” [F3means a person who is the holder of a sewerage licence under section 17BA] of the Water Industry Act 1991 M5,
(c)“sewerage services” has the meaning given in section 219(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991 M6,
(d)“sewerage undertaker” means a company appointed as a sewerage undertaker under section 6 of the Water Industry Act 1991 M7,
(e)“water supply licensee” has the meaning given in sections 17A(7) and 219(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991 M8,
(f)“water undertaker” means a company appointed as a water undertaker under section 6 of the Water Industry Act 1991.
Textual Amendments
F3Words in Sch. 2 para. 17(2)(b) substituted (30.7.2020 at 11.59 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/817), regs. 1(2), 9
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 2 para. 17 in force at 8.6.2020 at 12.01 a.m., see reg. 1(2)
Marginal Citations
M1S.I. 2017/1041 (W. 270); amended by S.I. 2018/647 (W. 121), S.I. 2019/460 (W. 110) and S.I. 2019/463 (W. 111).
M2S.I. 2018/647 (W. 121); amended by S.I. 2019/463 (W. 111).
M3S.I. 2016/618; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2017/506, S.I. 2018/707 and S.I. 2019/558.
M4S.I. 2016/614; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2017/506, S.I. 2018/706, S.I. 2018/378, S.I. 2019/526 and S.I. 2019/558.
M51991 c. 56. Section 17BA(6) was inserted by section 4(1) of the Water Act 2014 (c. 21). The reference to “sewerage licensee” was inserted in section 219(1) by paragraph 120(2)(f) of Schedule 7 to the Water Act 2014.
M6The definition of “sewerage services” was amended by paragraph 120 of Schedule 7 to the Water Act 2014.
M7Section 6 was amended by section 36(2) of and Schedule 8 to the Water Act 2003 (c. 37), Schedule 23 to the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), and Schedule 7 to the Water Act 2014.
M8Section 17A was inserted by section 1 of the Water Act 2014.