Connections with Water Mains and Communications with Sewers

Orders of the Day — Competition and Service (Utilities) Bill – in the House of Commons at 5:45 pm on 16 January 1992.

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Amendments made: No. 25, in page 29, line 41, leave out from '1991' to end of line 12 on page 30 and insert— '(which imposes on a water undertaker a duty to make a connection with one of its water mains where the premises for which a supply of water is required are in the undertaker's area), the words "in the undertaker's area" shall cease to have effect.'.

No. 26, in page 30, line 13, leave out from '1991', to end of line 31 and insert— '(which gives the owner or occupier of any premises in the area of a sewerage undertaker a right to have his drains or sewer communicate with the public sewers of that undertaker), the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (1)—

"(1) Subject to the provisions of this section—

  1. (a) the owner or occupier of any premises, or
  2. (b) the owner of any private sewer which drains premises, shall be entitled to have his drains or sewer communicate with the public sewer of any sewerage undertaker and thereby to discharge foul water and surface water from those premises or that private sewer.".'.—[ Mr. Redwood.]