Paragraph 66 Foul drainage

(1)

The following may not be connected to offsite sewerage and waste water infrastructure unless the criteria specified in sub-paragraph (2) are satisfied—

(a)

a new work, plant or equipment constructed or installed as part of authorised works;

(b)

any other work, plant or equipment constructed or installed on a temporary basis for the purposes of construction work.

(2)

The criteria are that—

(a)

the site controller has provided to the Secretary of State—

(i)

details of things done, or proposed to be done, to improve or reinforce that infrastructure (“sewerage actions”);

(ii)

if the sewerage actions have not yet been carried out, evidence that any licence or other authorisation required under an enactment to enable the sewerage actions to be carried out has been granted to or obtained by the person who is to carry them out;

(iii)

evidence that the carrying out of the sewerage actions has ensured, or will ensure, that the connection to existing offsite sewerage and waste water infrastructure of—

(aa)

the work, plant or equipment referred to in sub-paragraph (1), and

(bb)

any other authorised works that have been constructed, or will be required to be constructed before Grand Opening may take place in accordance with condition 69 (core capacity and features of ERC),

will not result in any sewerage undertaker being unable to comply with its duty under section 94(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991^f1;

(b)

the Secretary of State, having ascertained that the connection referred to in paragraph (a)(iii) will not adversely affect the integrity of any European site, has notified the site controller that those authorised works may connect to existing offsite sewerage and waste water infrastructure.

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Footnotes

f1: 1991 c. 56, amended by the Water Act 2003 (c. 37), sections 36(2), 88(2) and 97(1) and (3).