Article 7 Determining requests for adoption

England and Wales

(1)

The period within which an approving body M1 for a drainage system must determine a request to adopt a drainage system is—

(a)

8 weeks beginning on the first working day after it receives the request, or

(b)

any extended period agreed to by the approving body and developer M2 before the end of the period in sub-paragraph (a).

(2)

An approving body which fails to determine a request within the period specified in paragraph (1) is deemed to have refused the request.

(3)

In this article—

“request to adopt” (“archiad i fabwysiadu”) means a request pursuant to paragraph 23(2)(b) of Schedule 3;
“working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, a bank holiday within the meaning of section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 M3, or other public holiday in Wales.

Annotations

M1: “Approving body” is defined in paragraph 6 of Schedule 3.
M2: “Developer” is defined in relation to a request to adopt in paragraph 23(2)(b) of Schedule 3.
M3: 1971 c. 80.