{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-charges-vulnerable-groups-regulations-1999/regulation-2", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-charges-vulnerable-groups-regulations-1999/regulation-2.json", "legislation": "uksi/1999/3441", "legislation_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) Regulations 1999", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-charges-vulnerable-groups-regulations-1999", "path": "regulation/2", "kind": "regulation", "number": "2", "heading": "Special provision to be included in charges schemes", "text": "(1) Any charges scheme under section 143 of the Water Industry Act 1991 for a period beginning on or after 1st April 2000 must include special provision for providing assistance in accordance with these Regulations in relation to any premises for any consumer who–\n(a) falls within any class of persons specified in paragraph (2); and\n(b) satisfies the conditions in paragraph (3).\n(2) A consumer falls within a class of persons mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) if he or another person residing with him in the premises (“the qualifying person”) is entitled to receive any of the benefits or tax credits listed in paragraph (4) and either–\n(a) is entitled to receive child benefit under Part IX of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 for three or more dependent children under the age of 16 who reside in the premises; or\n(b) is diagnosed as suffering from, and is receiving treatment for, any of the medical conditions listed in paragraph (5) and as a result of that condition is obliged to use a significant additional volume of water.\n(3) The conditions in this paragraph are that–\n(a) charges for water supplied to the premises are fixed by reference to volume or would be so fixed if the consumer had not been receiving assistance under these Regulations;\n(b) the consumer and any other qualifying person each occupies the whole or part of the premises as his only or principal home;\n(c) in the case of premises which are not used solely as a person’s home, the other use is not the principal use of the premises;\n(d) water supplied to the premises is not used for–\n(i) watering a garden, other than by hand, by means of any apparatus; or\n(ii) automatically replenishing a pond, or a swimming pool, with a capacity greater than 10,000 litres; and\n(e) the consumer has applied for assistance and established his entitlement to it in accordance with regulation 4.\n(4) The benefits and tax credits mentioned in paragraph (2) are–\n(a) under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992–\n(i) council tax benefit;\n(ii) housing benefit;\n(iii) income support;\n(iv) disabled person’s tax credit;\n(v) working families tax credit; and\n(b) income-based job-seeker’s allowance under section 1(4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995.\n(5) The medical conditions mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) are–\n(a) desquamation;\n(b) weeping skin disease;\n(c) incontinence;\n(d) abdominal stoma; and\n(e) renal failure requiring dialysis at home.", "extent": null, "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "1992 c. 4." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f2", "text": "1992 c. 4." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f3", "text": "See section 1 of and Schedule 1 to the Tax Credits Act 1999 (c. 10)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f4", "text": "1995 c. 18; see section 1(4) for the definition of income-based job-seeker’s allowance." } ], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "word omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2005/59", "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "word substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2005/59", "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "uksi/2005/59", "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "word omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2005/59", "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/2000/519", "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2000" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2008/1879", "affecting_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 3) Regulations 2008" }, { "type": "word omitted", "affecting": "uksi/2003/552", "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2003" }, { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2003/552", "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2003" }, { "type": "added", "affecting": "uksi/2005/59", "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "substituted for reg. 2(5)(e)", "affecting": "uksi/2005/59", "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2005" }, { "type": "inserted", "affecting": "uksi/2013/630", "affecting_title": "The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013" } ], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3441/regulation/2", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:30.231061+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." }