{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-utility-transfers-and-water-charges-act-1988/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-utility-transfers-and-water-charges-act-1988/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/15",
  "legislation_title": "Public Utility Transfers and Water Charges Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-utility-transfers-and-water-charges-act-1988",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires—\n“the 1973 Act” means the Water Act 1973;\n“effluent” means any liquid, including any particles of matter in suspension in the liquid;\n“information” includes accounts, estimates and returns;\n“local statutory provision” and “statutory water company” have the same meanings as in the 1973 Act;\n“meter” means any apparatus for measuring or showing the volume of water supplied to, or of effluent discharged from, any premises;\n“modifications” includes additions, alterations and omissions, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“water undertakers” means any water authority or statutory water company.\n(2) References in this Act to the fixing of charges in relation to any premises by reference to volume are references to the fixing of those charges by reference to the volume of water supplied to those premises, to the volume of effluent discharged from those premises, to both of those factors or to one or both of those factors taken together with other factors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7 repealed (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 190, Sch. 27 Pt. I (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 41(1), 57(6), 58)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/15/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:48:46.494807+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}