Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/2
Timestamp: 2019-12-10 14:14:20
Document Index: 48082339

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art. 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 3', 'art. 2', 'art. 4']

s. 2 applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2013/1582 reg. 3(3)
s. 2(1) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 7 para. 3(2)
s. 2(2A)(c) word omitted by 2014 c. 21 s. 22(2)(a)
s. 2(2A)(d) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 7 para. 3(3)
s. 2(2C) word inserted by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 5 para. 2(a)(i)
s. 2(2C) word repealed by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 7 para. 3(4)(a)
s. 2(2C)(e) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 7 para. 3(4)(b)
s. 2(2D) repealed by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 5 para. 2(b)
s. 2(2D) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 7 para. 3(5)
s. 2(3)(d)(iii) omitted by 2013 c. 24 Sch. 21 para. 4
s. 2(6)(a) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 7 para. 3(8)(a)
s. 2(6)(a) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 7 para. 3(8)(b)
s. 2(6)(b) repealed by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 7 para. 3(8)(c)
s. 2(6)(c) repealed by 2014 c. 21 Sch. 7 para. 3(8)(c)
s. 2(6A) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 s. 24(2)
s. 2(6B) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 s. 24(2)
s. 2(6B) words substituted by S.I. 2014/892 Sch. 1 para. 74
s. 2(7) words substituted by 2014 c. 21 s. 24(2)
s. 2(7) words substituted by S.I. 2019/558 reg. 3(2)
2 General duties with respect to water industry.E+W
(1)This section shall have effect for imposing duties on the Secretary of State and on the Director as to when and how they should exercise and perform the following powers and duties, that is to say—
(a)in the case of the Secretary of State, the powers and duties conferred or imposed on him by virtue of the provisions of this Act relating to the regulation of relevant undertakers [F1and of licensed water suppliers] ; and
(b)in the case of the Director, the powers and duties conferred or imposed on him by virtue of any of those provisions, by the provisions relating to the financial conditions of requisitions or by the provisions relating to the movement of certain pipes.
[F2(2A)The Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the Authority shall exercise and perform the powers and duties mentioned in subsection (1) above in the manner which he or it considers is best calculated—
which are affected by the exercise of that power or the performance of that duty.]
[F3(3)Subject to subsection (2A) above, the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the Authority shall exercise and perform the powers and duties mentioned in subsection (1) above in the manner which he or it considers is best calculated—
(4)In exercising any of the powers or performing any of the duties mentioned in subsection (1) above in accordance with the preceding provisions of this section, the Secretary of State and the Authority shall have regard to the principles of best regulatory practice (including the principles under which regulatory activities should be transparent, accountable, proportionate, consistent and targeted only at cases in which action is needed).]
(5)In this section the references to water and drainage charges are references to—
(b)amounts of any other description which such an undertaker is authorised by or under any enactment to require any of its customers or potential customers to pay.
the provision of sewerage services by sewerage undertakers.]
[F5(a)subject to subsection (6A) below, the reference in subsection (1) above to the provisions of this Act relating to the regulation of relevant undertakers and of licensed water suppliers is a reference to the provisions contained in Part 2 of this Act (except section 27A, and Schedule 3A), or in any of sections 37A to 38, 39, 39B, 39C, 66B, 66D, 66F to 66H, 66K, 66L, 95, 96, 153, 181, 182, 192A, 192B, 195, 195A and 201 to 203 below;
(b)the reference in that subsection to the provisions relating to the financial conditions of requisitions is a reference to the provisions contained in sections 42, 43, 43A, 48, 51C, 99, 100 and 100A below; and]
(c)the reference in that subsection to the provisions relating to the movement of certain pipes is a reference to the provisions of section 185 below.
[F6(6A)[F7Subsections (2A) to (4) above and section 2A below] do not apply in relation to anything done by the Director in the exercise of functions assigned to him by section 31(3) below (“Competition Act functions”).
(6B)The Director may nevertheless, when exercising any Competition Act function, have regard to any matter in respect of which a duty is imposed by any of [F8subsections (2A) to (4) above and section 2A below] , if it is a matter to which [F9 the Office of Fair Trading (in this Act referred to as “the OFT”)] could have regard when exercising that function.]
[F10(7)The duties imposed by subsections (2A) to (4) above and section 2A below do not affect the obligation of the Authority or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State to perform or comply with any other duty or requirement (whether arising under this Act or another enactment, by virtue of any Community obligation or otherwise).]
F1Words in s. 2(1)(a) inserted (1.4.2005) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 39(2), 105(3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 2(f) (with savings in art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)
F2S. 2(2A)-(2E) substituted (1.4.2005) for s. 2(2) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 39(3), 105(3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 2(f) (with savings in art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)
F3S. 2(3)(4) substituted (1.4.2005) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 39(4), 105(3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 2(f) (with savings in art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)
F4S. 2(5A) inserted (1.4.2005) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 39(5), 105(3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 2(f) (with savings in art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)
F5S. 2(6)(a)(b) substituted (1.4.2005) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 39(6), 105(3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 2(f) (with savings in art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)
F6S. 2(6A)(6B) inserted (26.11.1998 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.3.2000) by 1998 c. 41, s. 54(3), Sch. 10 Pt. II para. 5(4) (with s. 73); S.I. 1998/2750, art. 2(1); S.I. 2000/344, art. 2, Sch.
F7Words in s. 2(6A) substituted (1.4.2005) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 39(7), 105(3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 2(f) (with savings in art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)
F8Words in s. 2(6B) substituted (1.4.2005) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 39(8), 105(3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 2(f) (with savings in art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)
F9Words in s. 2(6B) substituted (1.4.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 25(2); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with transitional and transitory provisions in art. 3)
F10S. 2(7) added (1.4.2005) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 39(9), 105(3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 2(f) (with savings in art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)