{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-63AE",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-63AE.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/56",
  "legislation_title": "Water Industry Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991",
  "path": "section/63AE",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63AE",
  "heading": "Interim licensees: schemes for terms and conditions",
  "text": "(1) A person who is an eligible water supply licensee for the purposes of section 63AC must make, and from time to time revise, a scheme containing the terms and conditions which, in the absence of agreed terms and conditions, are to apply to a supply of water made by the licensee by virtue of a direction given under section 63AC(3).\n(2) A scheme under this section may make different provision for different purposes, or for different areas.\n(3) As soon as practicable after a water supply licensee makes or revises a scheme under this section the licensee is to—\n(a) publish the scheme, or revised scheme, on the licensee's website, and\n(b) send a copy of the scheme, or revised scheme, to the Authority.\n(4) The Authority may give a direction that terms and conditions applying to a supply of water in accordance with a scheme under this section must be modified as specified in the direction.\n(5) A direction under subsection (4) may apply—\n(a) generally to terms and conditions applying in accordance with a scheme under this section, or\n(b) to terms and conditions so applying in any particular case.\n(6) It is the duty of a water supply licensee to comply with a direction under subsection (4), and this duty is enforceable under section 18.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 63AC-63AF substituted for s. 63AC (1.4.2017) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), ss. 31, 94(3); S.I. 2017/462, art. 3(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/63AE",
    "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."
}