{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-charges-vulnerable-groups-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-charges-vulnerable-groups-regulations-1999/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Assistance to be provided",
  "text": "(1) A water or sewerage undertaker’s charges scheme must ensure that the charges of any consumer who has established his entitlement to assistance in accordance with regulation 4 in relation to any premises–\n(a) are initially based, during the period of his entitlement to assistance, on the undertaker’s average charges for household consumers for water supplies or sewerage services; and\n(b) are, if necessary, adjusted at the end of that period, so that his total charge for such supplies or services in relation to those premises for that year does not exceed the amount he would have paid if he had not applied for assistance.\n(2) The method of arriving at an undertaker’s average charges included in a charges scheme by virtue of paragraph (1)(a) shall follow such principles as the Director may from time to time determine.\n(3) The Director shall give water and sewerage undertakers notice of any determination under paragraph (2).\n(4) Subject to paragraph (6), the period of a consumer’s entitlement to assistance shall begin with the starting date and shall end 12 months later unless that is part way through a billing period, in which case it shall end at the end of that billing period.\n(5) The starting date is 1st April 2000 or, if later, the start of the billing period in which he applies for assistance.\n(6) Where a person ceases to be eligible for assistance part way through the period of entitlement which would otherwise apply under paragraph (4), his period of entitlement shall end at the end of the billing period in which he ceases to be eligible for assistance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "i.e. the Director General of Water Services: see section 1(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2035",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Act 2003 (Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/519",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3441/regulation/3",
    "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."
}