Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013

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Definitions

2. In this Act—

“Act of 2000” means the Planning and Development Act 2000;

“Act of 2001” means the Local Government Act 2001;

“Act of 2007” means the Water Services Act 2007;

“Act of 2013” means the Water Services Act 2013;

“Agency” means the Environmental Protection Agency;

“city council” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2001;

“Commission” means the Commission for Energy Regulation;

“county council” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2001;

“customer” means, in relation to the provision of water services, the occupier of the premises in respect of which the water services are provided;

F1[dwelling means a premises occupied by a person as his or her place of private residence (whether or not as his or her principal private residence);]

“enactment” has the same meaning as it has in the Interpretation Act 2005;

“EU Water Framework Directive” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007;

“excluded provision” means—

(a) section 32(1)(b) (insofar as it relates to the provision, operation or maintenance of storm water sewers),

(b) Part 4A, or

(c) Part 6 (other than sections 91 and 92),

of the Act of 2007;

“investment plan” has the meaning assigned to it by section 34;

“land” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007;

“local authority” means—

(a) a city council, or

(b) a county council;

“Minister” means the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government;

“occupier” means, in relation to a premises, the person for the time being entitled to the occupation of the premises;

“pipe” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007;

“planning authority” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2000;

“premises” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007 and includes part of a premises;

“property” includes—

(a) land, equipment, pipes, sewers, structures, waterworks and waste water works, and

(b) moneys, stocks, shares and securities,

but does not include storm water sewers;

“sanitary authority” means a sanitary authority for the purposes of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts 1878 to 2001;

“sewer” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007;

“storm water” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007;

“storm water sewer” means any pipe or other conduit—

(a) used solely for the conveyance of storm water, or

(b) designed or intended to be used for the conveyance of storm water (whether or not it is connected to a sewer by a storm water overflow within the meaning of the Waste Water Discharge (Authorisation) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 684 of 2007));

F1["strategic funding plan" has the meaning assigned to it by section 34A (inserted by section 19 of the Water Services Act 2017);]

“structure” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007;

F1["threshold amount" means the threshold amount specified by order under section 53B (inserted by section 9 of the Water Services Act 2017) of the Act of 2007;]

“transfer day” shall be construed in accordance with section 6;

“waste water works” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007;

“water charges plan” has the meaning assigned to it by section 22;

F1["water services policy statement" has the meaning assigned to it by section 32A (inserted by section 18 of the Water Services Act 2017);]

“waterworks” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007.

Annotations

Amendments:

F1

Inserted (17.11.2017) by Water Services Act 2017 (29/2017), s. 14, S.I. No. 511 of 2017.

Modifications (not altering text):

C1

References to “county council” and “city council” construed (1.06.2014) by Local Government Reform Act 2014 (1/2014), ss. 9(2), 25(2), S.I. No. 214 of 2014.

Cesser and amalgamation of certain local government areas

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(2) Except where otherwise provided for by this Act, a reference, however expressed, in any enactment—

(a) to a county council or a city council (including a reference construed by section 3(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Principal Act as a reference to a county council or to a city council, as the case may be) shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to a county council, a city council or a city and county council, and

(b) to a county council and a city council (including a reference so construed) shall, if the context permits, be read as a reference to a county council, a city council and a city and county council.

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