Section 22 Fire hydrants: recovery of costs

Schedule 4 to the Water (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 45) (provisions incorporated in orders relating to water undertakings) shall be amended as follows.

After section 21 insert—

“

21A

The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision as to—

(a)

the persons (other than Scottish Water) from whom; or

(b)

the circumstances in which,

fire authorities may recover costs defrayed under section 21 of this Schedule.”.

In section 22, for the words “the last but one foregoing section” substitute “ section 20 of this Schedule ”.