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Instruments of Appointment as a Water and Sewerage Undertaker Hafren Dyfrdwy Cyfyngedig Consolidated Working Version - March 2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE APPOINTMENTS ........................................................................................................... 3 SCHEDULE 2: Conditions of the Appointment ........................................................................ 4 Condition A: Interpretation and Construction ........................................... 7 Condition B: Charges ..................................................................... 16 Condition C: Infrastructure Charges ..................................................... 60 Condition D: Charges Schemes .......................................................... 70 Condition E: Undue Preference/Discrimination in Charges .......................... 72 Condition E1: Prohibition on undue discrimination and undue preference and restrictions on the use of information in relation to the provision of certain services ............... 74 Condition F: Regulatory accounting statements ....................................... 76 Condition G: Core Customer Information .............................................. 79 Condition H: Procedure on leakage ..................................................... 83 Condition I: [not used] .................................................................... 83 Condition J: Levels of Service Information and Service Targets .................... 88 Condition K: Disposals of Land ......................................................... 95 Condition L: Underground Asset Management Plans ............................... 106 Condition M: Provision of Information to Ofwat .................................... 115 Condition M1: Information Remedies ................................................ 117 Condition N: Fees ....................................................................... 119 Condition O: Termination and replacement appointments .......................... 123 Condition P: Regulatory ring-fence ................................................... 124 Condition Q: Interruptions in supply because of drought ........................... 135 Condition R: Provision of combined and wholesale water supplies ............... 137 Condition R3 - MAC condition ........................................................ 145 Condition R4 - Stapling condition ..................................................... 150 Condition R5 - Customer protection condition ....................................... 153 Condition S: Introductions of water under the water supply licensing regime ... 154 Consolidation Note - Does not form part of the Appointment .............................................. 159 Consolidated Working Version - March 2021 THE APPOINTMENT 1 The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 11 and 14 of the Water Act 1989 ("the Act"), hereby appoints Chester Waterworks Company [Dee Valley Water Limited] ("the Appointee") to be the water undertaker for the area described in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1, subject to the Conditions set out in Schedule 2. 2 The appointment contained in this instrument ("the Appointment") shall come into force on the day appointed as the transfer date under section 4 of the Act. _________________________________ Authorised by the Secretary of A.H.H. JONES State to sign in that behalf An Assistant Secretary in the Welsh Office August 1989 Consolidated Working Version - March 2021 SCHEDULE 1: Area for which the Appointment is made 1 The Water Supply Area The area for which the Appointee is appointed to be the water undertaker ("the Water Supply Area") comprises the area the boundary of which is more particularly delineated by the line shaded pink in the Water Supply Area Map. 2 Interpretation and Construction In this Schedule "the Water Supply Area Map" means the map[s] signed on behalf of the Secretary of State accompanying and forming part of this instrument numbered 14 W 1 [and 38 W 1]. Consolidated working version: Hafren Dyfrdwy Water and Sewerage Appointments: March 2021 2 Water Supply Area [There is included in the Water Supply Area: 1 The former Area of Appointment of Wrexham Water Plc (Map 2)] 2 The Powys Site (formerly within the water supply area of Severn Trent) There is excluded from the Water Supply Area: 1 The original Area of Appointment of Chester Waterworks Company (Map 1) (Now in the water supply area of Severn Trent)] Consolidated working version: Hafren Dyfrdwy Water and Sewerage Appointments: March 2021 3 Consolidated working version: Hafren Dyfrdwy Water and Sewerage Appointments: March 2021 4 Consolidated working version: Hafren Dyfrdwy Water and Sewerage Appointments: March 2021 5 SCHEDULE 1: Sewerage Services Area The area for which the Appointee is appointed to be the sewerage undertaker ("the Sewerage Services Area") comprises all of the area in Wales for which Severn Trent Water Limited was the sewerage undertaker immediately before the date on which the Appointment was made. Consolidated working version: Hafren Dyfrdwy Water and Sewerage Appointments: March 2021 6 SCHEDULE 2: Conditions of the Appointment Condition A: Interpretation and Construction 1 Unless the contrary intention appears: (1) words and expressions used in these Conditions and references in these Conditions to enactments shall be construed as if they were in an Act of Parliament and the Interpretation Act 1978 applied to them; (2) references in these Conditions to enactments shall include any statutory modification thereof after the transfer date; (3) words and expressions used in these Conditions shall have the same meaning as in any provision of the Water Industry Act 1991; (4) references in these Conditions to sections and Schedules are references to sections of, and Schedules to, the Water Act 1989; and (5) references in these Conditions to paragraphs are references to paragraphs of the Condition in which the reference appears and references to sub-paragraphs are references to sub-paragraphs of the paragraph in which the reference appears. 2 In construing these Conditions: (1) the heading or title of any Condition or of any paragraph of any Condition shall be disregarded; (2) any description of the purposes of a Condition shall be construed subject to the provisions of the rest of the Condition in which that description appears; (3) the Conditions will so far as is consistent with other statutory duties and powers, be construed in accordance with relevant considerations specific to Wales, including the relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks applicable to Wales; and (4) references to a liability shall be taken to include the creation of any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien or other form of security or encumbrance, the making of a loan and the taking on of a debt; and Consolidated working version: Hafren Dyfrdwy Water and Sewerage Appointments: March 2021 7 (5) references to a loan shall be taken to include the transfer or lending, by any means, of any sum of money or rights in respect of that sum. 3 Unless the context otherwise requires, in these Conditions: "the 1937 Act" means the Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act 1937; "the 1945 Act" means the Water Act 1945; "the 1973 Act" means the Water Act 1973; “the 2014 Act” means the Water Act 2014; "the Appointed Business" means the business consisting of the carrying out by the Appointee of the Regulated Activities; “Appointee’s customer” means a customer of the Appointee who is not also a customer of a Licensee, and the expressions “customer of the Appointee” and “Appointee’s own customer” shall have the same meaning; “Appointee's Turnover Share” means, in relation to a Charging Year, the amount calculated as t / T where: (a) “t” means an amount equal to the turnover of the Appointed Business as shown in the accounting statements prepared by the Appointee under Condition F for the twelve month period ending twelve months before the start of the Charging Year; and (b) “T” means an amount equal to the sum of the turnover of the appointed businesses of all relevant undertakers, including the Appointee, as shown in their accounting statements prepared under Condition F, and the provisions of appointments which are equivalent to Condition F, for the twelve month period ending twelve months before the start of the Charging Year; "the Area" means the area for which for the time being the Appointee holds the appointment as water undertaker or, as the case may be, sewerage undertaker; "Associated Company" means any Group Company or Related Company; Consolidated working version: Hafren Dyfrdwy Water and Sewerage Appointments: March 2021 8 "the Auditors" means the Appointee's auditors for the time being appointed in accordance with the Companies Act 2006; “Bespoke Charge” means any charge fixed or agreed by the Appointee, in respect of any customer of the Appointee, which is not a Class Charge; "books and records" means any and all books, records, files, maps, plans, documents, papers, accounts, estimates, returns and other data of whatsoever nature and whether or not created, recorded or maintained in a document; "Charging Year" means a year commencing on 1 April; “Class Charge” means any charge fixed or agreed by the Appointee which applies to a particular class of the Appointee's customers; “the Consumer Prices Index (H)" means the all items Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers' housing costs published by the Statistics Board; “Corporate Family Rating” means a credit rating assigned by a Credit