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Regulation 17 Savings: matters arising before 2nd July 2025

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(1)

Part 3 of the 2008 Regulations as it had effect immediately before 2nd July 2025 continues to have effect on and after that date in respect of any pre-2nd July matter.

(2)

For the purposes of this regulation, a “pre-2nd July matter” is any of the following—

(a)

an appointment in respect of which an English duty-holder is under the duty in regulation 17C(2)(b) and (3) of the 2008 Regulations immediately before 2nd July 2025;

(b)

a complaint, query or request received by an English duty-holder under Part 3 of the 2008 Regulations before 2nd July 2025;

(c)

the exercise, before 2nd July 2025, by an English wholesaler of its power under section 60(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991;

(d)

an event in respect of which an English wholesaler is under the duty in regulation 17F(3) of the 2008 Regulations immediately before 2nd July 2025;

(e)

an occasion arising before 2nd July 2025 on which the pressure in a communication pipe (within the meaning given by regulation 17G of the 2008 Regulations as it had effect immediately before that date) serving a customer’s premises falls below seven metres static head;

(f)

an incident of effluent from an EW sewer entering a customer’s building before 2nd July 2025;

(g)

an incident of effluent from an EW sewer entering a customer’s land or property before 2nd July 2025;

(h)

any payment required to be made in respect of a matter mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (g).

(3)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (f)—

(a)

in the case of a building that has a suspended floor, the space beneath that floor is part of the building;

(b)

effluent is not taken to have entered a building while it is in a drain or sewer.

(4)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (g), effluent is not taken to have entered land or property while it is in a drain or sewer.

(5)

In this regulation—

  • “English duty-holder” means—

    1. (a)

      an English service provider (within the meaning of regulation 17A of the 2008 Regulations as it had effect immediately before 2nd July 2025), or

    2. (b)

      an English wholesaler;

  • “English wholesaler” has the meaning given by regulation 17A of the 2008 Regulations as it had effect immediately before 2nd July 2025;

  • “EW sewer” means a sewer which is vested in an English sewerage wholesaler.