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The Water and Sewerage Services Undertaking (Borrowing) (Scotland) Order 2020

S.S.I. 2020/341 · Made 29 October 2020

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Water Industry

Made 29th October 2020

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 30th October 2020

Coming into force 1st January 2021

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14(2) of the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2005 asp 3. Section 14(2) was amended by section 28(2) of the Water Resources (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 5).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Interpretation
  3. 3Borrowing by the undertaking from persons other than the Scottish Ministers
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Water and Sewerage Services Undertaking (Borrowing) (Scotland) Order 2020 and comes into force on 1 January 2021.

2Interpretation

In this Order—

(a)

“the Act” means the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005,

(b)

“the undertaking” means the water and sewerage services undertaking established for the purposes of section 13 of the Actf1, and

(c)

“subsidiary” has the meaning given by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006f2.

3Borrowing by the undertaking from persons other than the Scottish Ministers

The circumstances specified for the purposes of section 14(2)(b) of the Act (the circumstances in which the undertaking may borrow money from any other person) are—

(a)

where sums are borrowed for the purpose of enabling the undertaking to perform activities authorised by a water services or sewerage services licence granted to it under section 6(1) or (3) of the Actf1, or activities it engages in by virtue of section 13(7) of the Act, and

(b)

the lender is Scottish Water or a subsidiary of Scottish Water.

Signature

R CUNNINGHAM

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

29th October 2020

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies the circumstances in which the water and sewerage undertaking (“the undertaking”) established by Scottish Water under section 13 of the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 (“the Act”) may borrow money from persons other than the Scottish Ministers, pursuant to section 14(2)(b) of the Act. The undertaking is permitted to borrow in the circumstances specified in Article 3.

This Order supplements the Water and Sewerage Services Undertaking (Lending by the Scottish Ministers) Order 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/44), which specifies the circumstances in which the undertaking may borrow from the Scottish Ministers.