Article 14 Cleaning other artificial outdoor surfaces using a hosepipeI1

England and Wales

(1)

Using a hosepipe to clean an artificial outdoor surface for health or safety reasons is not to be treated as falling within the category of use in section 76(2)(k) of the Act.

(2)

In that section, “artificial outdoor surface” means any of the following—

(a)

any area outdoors which is paved or laid with hard or artificial material;

(b)

timber decking;

(c)

a quay;

(d)

a trailer designed, constructed or adapted to launch boats or other vessels or craft into water, other than a private motor-vehicle within the meaning of section 76(2)(b) of the Act^f1;

(e)

the roof of any domestic premises within the meaning of section 76(2)(i) of the Act^f2.

(3)

In paragraph (2), “quay” includes jetty, pontoon, wharf and slipway.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 14 in force at 1.10.2010, see art. 1

Footnotes

f1: Article 5 defines “private motor-vehicle” for the purposes of section 76(2)(b) of the Water Industry Act 1991.
f2: Article 12(3) defines “domestic premises” for the purposes of section 76(2)(i) of the Water Industry Act 1991.