{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sewerage-scotland-act-1968/section-16A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sewerage-scotland-act-1968/section-16A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/47",
  "legislation_title": "Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sewerage-scotland-act-1968",
  "path": "section/16A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16A",
  "heading": "Vesting of certain private sewers.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to any agreement entered into under subsection (2) below, there shall vest in a person authorised, under subsection (1) of section 3A of this Act, by Scottish Water to construct a sewer not connecting with its sewers or sewage treatment works the sewer constructed; and any sewer vested in a person by this subsection and any sewer or SUD system vested in a person by a determination under subsection (2) of that section shall be his property and he solely responsible for its management, maintenance and renewal.\n(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) above, Scottish Water may, on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, at any time enter into an agreement under which the sewer or SUD system , or any part of it, shall vest in it .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 16A and sidenote inserted (4.1.1995) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 75(14); S.I. 1994/2850, art. 3(c)(vi) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 16A(1) substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 2 (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 16A(1) substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 21(a) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 16A(1) substituted (30.11.2007) by Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 3), s. 38(1), Sch. 3 para. 14(a); S.S.I. 2007/512, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 16A(2) substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 3 (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 16A(2) substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 21(b)(i) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 16A(2) inserted (30.11.2007) by Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 3), s. 38(1), Sch. 3 para. 14(b); S.S.I. 2007/512, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 16A(2) substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71, Sch. 5 para. 21(b)(ii) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16A: power to modify conferred (temp. from 4.1.1995 to 1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 182(2); S.I. 1994/2850, art. 3(a), Sch. 2 (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2003/3",
      "affecting_title": "Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/47/section/16A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:46.387476+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."
}