19 Exceptions to duty to enforce
Water Industry Act 1991 (1991 c 56) | Legislation

19  Exceptions to duty to enforce

(1)     [Subject to the Drinking Water (Undertakings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000,] neither the Secretary of State nor [the Authority] shall be required to make an enforcement order in relation to any [person], or to confirm a provisional enforcement order so made, if [he or it] is satisfied—

(a)     that the contraventions were, or the apprehended contraventions are, of a trivial nature;

[(aa)     that the extent to which the [person] caused or contributed to, or was likely to cause or contribute to, a contravention was trivial;]

(b)     that the [person] has given, and is complying with, an undertaking to take all such steps as it appears to [him or it] for the time being to be appropriate for the [person] to take for the purpose of securing or facilitating compliance with the condition or

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