SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7E+WFurther amendments

Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56)E+W

23(1)Section 17O (modification of licences following report) is amended as follows.E+W

(2)For the title there is substituted “ Modification of licences following report ”.

(3)In subsection (2) (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,.

(4)In subsection (5)(c)(iii), at the beginning there is inserted “in a case relating to a water supply licence or licences,”.

(5)In subsection (10) (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.