# Water Industry Act 1991, Section 17FA: Applications forwarded by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland


(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision about—
(a) treating a 2005 Act application for the grant of a water services licence under section 6 of the 2005 Act as being also an application under section 17F for the grant of a water supply licence giving only a retail authorisation or a restricted retail authorisation or both;
(b) treating a 2005 Act application for the grant of a sewerage services licence under section 6 of the 2005 Act as being also an application under section 17F for the grant of a sewerage licence giving only a retail authorisation.
(2) The regulations may in particular make provision about—
(a) the circumstances in which, and the conditions subject to which, a 2005 Act application is to be treated as an application under section 17F for a water supply or sewerage licence giving a particular authorisation or particular authorisations;
(b) the time at which an application is to be treated as having been made;
(c) the processing of an application by the Authority.
(3) Provision under subsection (2)(a) may require a 2005 Act application that is forwarded to the Authority—
(a) to contain, or to be accompanied by, such information or information of such description as is specified by the regulations;
(b) to be accompanied by such documents or documents of such descriptions as are specified by the regulations;
(c) to be accompanied by a fee, or a fee of a description, specified by the regulations.
(4) In this section and section 17FB—
“the 2005 Act” means the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005;
“2005 Act application” means an application under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2005 Act.

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