Paragraph 8

(1)

Section 11 (power of Scottish Ministers on default of authority) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1)—

(a)

for “a water authority have” substitute “ Scottish Water has ”,

(b)

for “they are” substitute “ it is ”,

(c)

for “their limits of supply, or have” substitute “ its limits of supply, or has ”,

(d)

for “they have” substitute “ it has ”,

(e)

for “their” in the second place where it occurs substitute “ its ”,

(f)

for “any authority have” substitute “ Scottish Water has ”.

(3)

In subsection (2)—

(a)

for “the authority in question” substitute “ Scottish Water ”,

(b)

for “them” in both places where it occurs substitute “ it ”,

(c)

for “their” in both places where it occurs substitute “ its ”.

(4)

In subsection (3)—

(a)

for the words from “the authority” to “fail” substitute “ Scottish Water fails ”,

(b)

for “that order” substitute “ an order made under subsection (2) ”,

(c)

paragraph (a) and the following “and” are repealed.

(5)

Subsections (4) to (7) are repealed.