52 The domestic supply duty
Water Industry Act 1991 (1991 c 56) | Legislation

Domestic supplies

52  The domestic supply duty

(1)     The domestic supply duty of a water undertaker in relation to any premises is a duty, until there is an interruption of that duty—

(a)     to provide to those premises such a supply of water as (so far as those premises are concerned) is sufficient for domestic purposes; and

(b)     to maintain the connection between the undertaker's water main and the service pipe by which that supply is provided to those premises.

(2)     Subject to the following provisions of this section and to section 53 below, a water undertaker shall owe a domestic supply duty in relation to any premises to which this section applies . . . if—

(a)     a demand for a supply of water for domestic purposes has been made, in accordance with subsection (5) below, to the undertaker in respect of those premises; or

(b)     those premises are premises to which this section applies by reason of a supply of water provided before 1st September 1989,

and there has been no interruption of the domestic supply duty in relation to those premises since that demand was made or, as the case may be, since the beginning of 1st September 1989.

(3)

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