Water Services Act 2014
Number 44 of 2014
WATER SERVICES ACT 2014
REVISED
Updated to 1 February 2022
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Water Services Act 2014. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
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Number 44 of 2014
WATER SERVICES ACT 2014
REVISED
Updated to 1 February 2022
CONTENTS
Section
2. Plebiscite on ownership of Irish Water
3A. Payment of charge on sale of property (repealed)
3B. No liability in respect of certain charges
4. Late payment charge - dwellings
5A. Water conservation grant - database
6. Prohibition on reduction of supply to dwelling
8. Customer dispute resolution
8A. Customer dispute resolution: connection to, and use of, public water system
10. Loans relating to property
11. Abolition of power of Irish Water to require PPS numbers of its customers
12. Public water services property not rateable
Acts Referred to
Companies Acts
Gas Act 1976 (No. 30)
Gas Regulation Act 2013 (No. 39)
Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Act 2014 (No. 17)
Housing Finance Agency Act 1981 (No. 37)
Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014 (No. 16)
Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)
Valuation Act 2001 (No. 13)
Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013 (No. 50)
Water Services Act 2007 (No. 30)
Water Services Act 2013 (No. 6)
Water Services Acts 2007 to 2013
Number 44 of 2014
WATER SERVICES ACT 2014
REVISED
Updated to 1 February 2022
An Act to make provision, should the Government with the consent of both Houses of the Oireachtas propose to alienate the shareholding in Irish Water of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Minister for Finance, for the holding of a Plebiscite of the People to decide upon the proposal; to provide for the maximum level of charges that Irish Water may impose on a person in respect of the provision of water services to a dwelling, for the payment of a grant to householders for the conservation of water, for the establishment by the Commission for Energy Regulation of a public water forum, for the provision by the Commission for Energy Regulation of dispute resolution procedures for customers of Irish Water and for matters relating to the superannuation of persons employed with Irish Water before those persons entered into service with Irish Water; to rescind the power of Irish Water to require the personal public service number of its customers; to increase the membership of the Board of Ervia; to amend the Water Services Acts 2007 to 2013, the First Schedule to the Gas Act 1976, Schedule 4 to the Valuation Act 2001 and Schedule 5 to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; and to provide for connected matters.
[28th December, 2014]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
Annotations
Editorial Notes:
E1
Collectively cited Valuation Acts listed as legislation, the responsibility for which is primarily that of a Government Minister, which confers functions on local authorities or classes of local authorities (1.01.2002) by Local Government Act 2001 (37/2001), s. 63(2)(a)(ii) and sch. 12 part 2, S.I. No. 588 of 2001.