The Water Supply (Fluoridation Indemnities) (England) Regulations 2005

Definitions

1.  In this indemnity—

(a) “the Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991 as amended by the Water Act 2003;

(b) “the agreement” means the agreement or agreements which are specified in an annex hereto and any other schemes for the fluoridation of water to which section 87 of the Act applies and in respect of which the water undertaker has or may have liability, and any agreement or arrangements for the supply of fluoridated water to which the water undertaker is a party, including in each case any agreement to vary the agreement or arrangement;

(c) “the water undertaker” means [insert name of undertaker] and, where the context requires, its predecessor water authority and includes their respective directors, employees and agents for whom the undertaker is liable;

(d) “fluoridated water” means water supplied in accordance with the agreement with [insert name of relevant strategic health authority], being water fluoridated in compliance, or in purported compliance, with the Act;

(e) “predecessor water authority” means [insert name of relevant authority] or any predecessor acting as a statutory water undertaker in the whole or any part of the water region which performed functions which have been transferred to the water undertaker;

(f) “the water region” means the geographical area for which the water undertaker has been appointed pursuant to the Act or, in relation to a predecessor water authority, the area within which it had a duty to supply water under section 11 of the Water Act 1973 (1) (excluding any area in respect of which that authority discharged its duty through a statutory water company pursuant to section 12 of that Act) or pursuant to any equivalent provision of a previous enactment.

(1)

1973 c.37.