64 Supply by means of separate service pipes
Water Industry Act 1991 (1991 c 56) | Legislation

Means of supply

64  Supply by means of separate service pipes

(1)     Subject to the following provisions of this section, a water undertaker may require the provision of a separate service pipe to any premises . . . which—

(a)     consist in a house or any other building or part of a building, being, in the case of a part of a building, a part which is separately occupied; and

(b)     are already supplied with water by the undertaker but do not have a separate service pipe.

(2)     Where the supply of water to two or more houses [is provided wholly or partly by the same service pipe], the water undertaker shall not require the provision of separate service pipes to those houses until—

(a)     the service pipe, in so far as it belongs to a person other than the undertaker, becomes so defective as to require renewal or is no longer sufficient to meet the requirements of those houses;

(b)     a payment in respect of the supply of water

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