{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sewerage-services-exception-from-sewerage-system-prohibition-england-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sewerage-services-exception-from-sewerage-system-prohibition-england-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/244",
  "legislation_title": "The Sewerage Services (Exception from Sewerage System Prohibition) (England) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sewerage-services-exception-from-sewerage-system-prohibition-england-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specified circumstances in which prohibition on use of a sewerage system does not apply",
  "text": "(1) Section 117P(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991 (prohibition on unauthorised use of sewerage system) does not apply where—\n(a) a sewerage undertaker provides sewerage services to any premises; and\n(b) provision of those services—\n(i) involves use of the sewerage system of another sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England; and\n(ii) is under a main connection agreement or an old main connection agreement.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“main connection agreement” has the meaning given in section 110A(11) of the Water Industry Act 1991; and\n“old main connection agreement” has the meaning given in section 9(3)(a) of the Water Act 2014.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.2017, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) provides that “sewerage undertaker”, in relation to England and Wales, shall be construed in accordance with section 6 of the Water Industry Act 1991 (appointment of relevant undertakers)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 110A was substituted by section 9(1) of the Water Act 2014."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2014 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/244/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:14:19.404839+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."
}