{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-63AB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-63AB.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/56",
  "legislation_title": "Water Industry Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991",
  "path": "section/63AB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63AB",
  "heading": "Supply by water supply licensee: non-domestic supply",
  "text": "(1) The duty of a water undertaker under section 55 above or section 63AC(2) to provide a supply of water to any premises shall cease to apply if—\n(a) a notice specifying the time after which a supply of water to the premises by the undertaker will no longer be required in consequence of the premises being supplied by a water supply licensee has been served on the undertaker by the owner or occupier of the premises; and\n(b) that time has passed.\n(2) Where the charges for the water supplied by the undertaker are, under Chapter 1 of Part 5 of this Act, fixed in relation to the premises by reference to volume, the time specified in the notice shall fall at least two working days after the notice is served.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 63AA-63AC and preceding cross-heading inserted (1.12.2005) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 101(1), 105(3), Sch. 8 para. 17; S.I. 2005/2714, art. 3(c) (with Sch. para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 63AB(1) inserted (6.3.2017) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 7 para. 64(3); S.I. 2017/58, art. 2(c) (with art. 3(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 63AB(1)(a) substituted (6.3.2017) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 7 para. 64(4); S.I. 2017/58, art. 2(c) (with art. 3(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 63AB title substituted (6.3.2017) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 7 para. 64(2); S.I. 2017/58, art. 2(c) (with art. 3(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/63AB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-04T03:48:29.824737+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."
}