{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-and-sewerage-services-customer-service-standards-regulations-2008/regulation-17IF",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-and-sewerage-services-customer-service-standards-regulations-2008/regulation-17IF.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/594",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply and Sewerage Services (Customer Service Standards) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-and-sewerage-services-customer-service-standards-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/17IF",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17IF",
  "heading": "Indexation",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where there is a relevant increase in the consumer prices index in relation to a payment change date.\n(2) There is a relevant increase in the consumer prices index in relation to a payment change date if there is a percentage increase of at least 10% in the consumer prices for the reference month compared to the consumer prices index for September 2025.\n(3) Where this regulation applies, the specified amounts—\n(a) are to be adjusted by the relevant increase in the consumer prices index, and\n(b) rounded to the nearest £5.\n(4) The increase in a specified amount in accordance with paragraph (3) applies only in respect of a breach of a service standard which occurs on or after the payment change date on which the specified amounts are increased.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation, “the specified amounts” are each of the amounts payable under regulations 17C to 17IE, 17J and 17JA.\n(6) In this regulation—\n“consumer prices index” means the all items consumer prices index published by the Statistics Board;\n“payment change date” means—\n(a)1st April 2026, or\n(b)1st April in any subsequent year;\n“the reference month”, in relation to a payment change date, means the September immediately preceding that date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3 inserted (1.4.2017) by The Water Supply and Sewerage Services (Customer Service Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/246), regs. 1(1), 7 (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Regs. 17IA-17IF inserted (2.7.2025 for specified purposes, 1.10.2025 in so far as not already in force) by The Water Supply and Sewerage Services (Customer Service Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/662), regs. 1(2)(d)(3), 13(1) (with regs. 17, 18)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/594/regulation/17IF",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:59.035010+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."
}