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Water Services Act 2021

Provisions relating to supply of drinking water - Statutory management and transfer of operations

85: Effect of appointment

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"What happens when you're chosen to be in charge of drinking water"

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If you are appointed under section 83, you get all the jobs and duties of a drinking water supplier. You also get the power to do those jobs, as if the law gave them to you directly. The law applies to you in the same way as it would to a drinking water supplier.

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Part 2Provisions relating to supply of drinking water
Statutory management and transfer of operations

85Effect of appointment

  1. If a person is appointed under section 83,—

  2. that person has all the drinking water supplier’s functions and duties specified in the appointment, and the powers necessary to perform those functions or duties, as if they had been imposed or conferred on that person directly by this Act and not by the appointment; and
    1. this Act applies accordingly.

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