# Water Industry Act 1991, Section 17BA: Sewerage licences


(1) The Authority may grant to a person a licence in respect of the use of the sewerage system of a sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England (a “sewerage licence”).
(2) A sewerage licence may give the holder of the licence one or more of the following—
(a) a retail authorisation;
(b) a wholesale authorisation;
(c) a disposal authorisation.
(3) Schedule 2B makes provision as to the authorisations.
(4) In the case of each of the authorisations, an authorisation to do a thing is an authorisation to do it in accordance with Chapter 2A of Part 4.
(5) The Authority may exercise the power to grant a sewerage licence only in accordance with a general authorisation given by the Secretary of State.
(6) References in this Act to a sewerage licensee are references to a person that is the holder for the time being of a sewerage licence.
(7) References in this Chapter to the sewerage system of a sewerage undertaker are references to the system comprising—
(a) the system of public sewers, the facilities for emptying public sewers and the sewage disposal works and other facilities for dealing effectually with the contents of public sewers that the undertaker is required to provide by section 94, and
(b) the lateral drains that the undertaker is required to maintain by section 94.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/17BA (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-17BA
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