{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-undertakers-exit-from-non-household-retail-market-regulations-2016/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-undertakers-exit-from-non-household-retail-market-regulations-2016/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/744",
  "legislation_title": "The Water and Sewerage Undertakers (Exit from Non-household Retail Market) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-undertakers-exit-from-non-household-retail-market-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Exit application to identify customers’ premises",
  "text": "(1) An exit application must identify the premises that are to be supplied with water or provided with sewerage services by an acquiring licensee instead of by the relevant undertaker.\n(2) If there is more than one acquiring licensee, the exit application must identify which premises are to be supplied with water or provided with sewerage services by which licensee.\n(3) The premises must be identified in a way that will include all premises which are supplied with water or provided with sewerage services by the relevant undertaker immediately before the exit date but which the undertaker will be prohibited by regulation 20 from supplying with water or providing with sewerage services on and after the exit date.\n(4) In paragraph (3), the reference to premises which are supplied with water or provided with sewerage services by the relevant undertaker includes all premises in respect of which a person is liable to pay charges to the undertaker for the supply of water or provision of sewerage services.\n(5) If the relevant undertaker supplies water and provides sewerage services to the same premises, a single acquiring licensee must be identified under paragraph (2) in relation to the supply of water and the provision of sewerage services to those premises.\n(6) Premises may be identified in an exit application by specifying or describing them.\n(7) In these Regulations, “transferred premises”, in relation to an acquiring licensee, means premises identified in an exit application as premises to be supplied with water or provided with sewerage services by the licensee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/744/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:50.540012+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."
}