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These Regulations may be cited as the Sewerage Services (Exception from Sewerage System Prohibition) (England) Regulations 2017 and come into force on 1st April 2017.
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(1) Section 117P(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991 (prohibition on unauthorised use of sewerage system) does not apply where—
(a) a sewerage undertaker provides sewerage services to any premises; and
(b) provision of those services—
(i) involves use of the sewerage system of another sewerage undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England; and
(ii) is under a main connection agreement or an old main connection agreement.
(2) In this regulation—
 “main connection agreement” has the meaning given in section 110A(11) of the Water Industry Act 1991; and
 “old main connection agreement” has the meaning given in section 9(3)(a) of the Water Act 2014.
Thérèse Coffey
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
28th February 2017