Regulation 40 Water supply licensee is not identified

The water undertaker must notify the WSRA if, by the end of the relevant period, the undertaker has not received a notice that a water supply licensee has agreed to supply the premises with water.

The water undertaker must also notify the WSRA if at any time after the end of the relevant period it receives a notice that a water supply licensee has agreed to supply the premises with water.

A water undertaker is not required to notify the WSRA under paragraph (1) or (2) if sections 66A(4) and 66AA(4) of the 1991 Act apply.

In this regulation—

• “the relevant period” means the period of 22 working days beginning with the day on which the relevant undertaker receives the water supply request;

• “working day” means a day which is not a Saturday or a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971^f1.