The Sewerage Services (Exception from Sewerage System Prohibition) (England) Regulations 2017

• Citation: S.I. 2017/244
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Sewerage Services (Exception from Sewerage System Prohibition) (England) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 1st April 2017.

Section 2 Specified circumstances in which prohibition on use of a sewerage system does not apply

(1) Section 117P(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991 (prohibition on unauthorised use of sewerage system) does not apply where—

(a) a sewerage undertaker provides sewerage services to any premises; and

(b) provision of those services—

(i) involves use of the sewerage system of another sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England; and

(ii) is under a main connection agreement or an old main connection agreement.

(2) In this regulation—

“main connection agreement” has the meaning given in section 110A(11) of the Water Industry Act 1991 ; and

“old main connection agreement” has the meaning given in section 9(3)(a) of the Water Act 2014 .