{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sustainable-drainage-approval-and-adoption-procedure-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sustainable-drainage-approval-and-adoption-procedure-wales-regulations-2018/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/1077",
  "legislation_title": "The Sustainable Drainage (Approval and Adoption Procedure) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sustainable-drainage-approval-and-adoption-procedure-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Release of non-performance bond where duty to adopt does not apply",
  "text": "(1) Except where paragraph (3) applies, an approving body must release a non-performance bond within 4 weeks beginning on the first working day after completion of a drainage system that is constructed in accordance with approved proposals.\n(2) Paragraph (3) applies if the approving body—\n(a) issued a certificate under paragraph 12(2) of Schedule 3, and\n(b) carried out work to ensure the drainage system was completed in such a manner as to make it likely to operate in compliance with national standards.\n(3) The approving body must, within 4 weeks beginning on the first working day after completing the work—\n(a) send to the developer a full account of any sums received under the bond that have been applied to the expense of carrying out the work,\n(b) pay the developer any excess, and\n(c) release the non-performance bond.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“approved proposals” (“cynigion a gymeradwywyd”) means proposals approved under paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 3, including any conditions of approval;\n“drainage system” (“system ddraenio”) is to be construed as a drainage system to which the duty to adopt does not apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/1077/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:45.053337+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."
}