179 Vesting of works in undertaker
Water Industry Act 1991 (1991 c 56) | Legislation

Chapter III
Supplemental Provisions with respect to Undertakers' Powers

Vesting of works in undertaker

179  Vesting of works in undertaker

(1)     Subject to [subsections (1A) and (3) below]—

(a)     every relevant pipe which has been laid, in exercise of any power conferred by this Part or otherwise, by a relevant undertaker; and

(b)     every sewage disposal works constructed by a sewerage undertaker,

shall vest in the undertaker which laid it or, as the case may be, the undertaker which constructed them.

[(1A)     Subsection (1) above is subject to any provision to the contrary contained in an agreement between the relevant undertaker and the person in whom an interest in the pipe or works is or is to be vested. . ..]

(2)     In addition to the sewers and works which vest in a sewerage undertaker by virtue of subsection (1) above, the following shall also vest in such an undertaker, that is to say—

(a)     every sewer[, lateral drain] or sewage disposal works with respect to which a declaration of vesting

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