{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-quality-and-supply-fees-order-2016/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-quality-and-supply-fees-order-2016/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/303",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Quality and Supply (Fees) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-quality-and-supply-fees-order-2016",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1991 Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991;\n“inspector” means a person appointed under section 86(1) of the 1991 Act (assessors for the enforcement of water quality);\n“relevant water supplier” means—\n(a) a company appointed as a water undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England; or\n(b) a company which is the holder of a water supply licence within the meaning of section 17A of the 1991 Act (licensing of water suppliers) which is using the supply system of a water undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 86(1) was amended by sections 57 and 101 of, and Schedules 8 and 9 to, the Water Act 2003 (c.37)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 6 of the Water Industry Act 1991 (“the 1991 Act”) (appointment of relevant undertakers)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 17A was inserted by section 56 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Water Act 2003. It was substituted by section 1 of the Water Act 2014, but not all of the substituted provisions have been commenced."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See section 17B of the 1991 Act for the meaning of “supply system”. Section 17B was inserted by section 56 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Water Act 2003. Sections 2, 5 and 56 of, and Schedules 5 and 7 to, the Water Act 2014 make further amendments to section 17B which have yet to be commenced."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/303/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:06.553860+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."
}