{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-17BB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-17BB.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/56",
  "legislation_title": "Water Industry Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991",
  "path": "section/17BB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17BB",
  "heading": "Sewerage licences: restrictions on grants",
  "text": "(1) The Authority must consult the Secretary of State, the Environment Agency and the NRBW before granting a licence that gives—\n(a) a wholesale authorisation, or\n(b) a disposal authorisation.\n(2) A sewerage licence granted to a sewerage undertaker may not give the holder—\n(a) a retail authorisation, or\n(b) a wholesale authorisation.\n(3) A sewerage licence may not be granted to a person unless that person is a limited company.\n(4) The restriction in subsection (3) does not apply if the sewerage licence gives only a retail authorisation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 1A inserted (1.4.2004 for specified provisions and purposes and 1.8.2005 for further specified provisions and purposes and 1.10.2005 for further specified provisions and 1.12.2005 otherwise) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 56, 105(3), Sch. 4 para. 2; S.I. 2004/641, art. 3(l), Sch. 1 (with art. 6, Sch. 3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 3(b) (with savings in art. 4, Sch. 1, 2); S.I. 2005/2714, arts. 2(h), 3(a) (with Sch. para. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 17BA, 17BB inserted (1.1.2016 for the substitution of s. 17BA(2)-(5), 1.4.2016 for the insertion of s. 17BA(1) for specified purposes and ss. 17BA(7), 17BB(2)-(4)) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), ss. 4(1), 94(3); S.I. 2015/1938, art. 3(b)(i); S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(b)(i) (with Sch. 2) (as amended (22.3.2017) by S.I. 2017/462, art. 16)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2014/21",
      "affecting_title": "Water Act 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/17BB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:46.295560+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."
}