Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013
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Definitions | ||
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2. In this Act— | ||
“Act of 2000” means the Planning and Development Act 2000 ; | ||
“Act of 2001” means the Local Government Act 2001 ; | ||
“Act of 2007” means the Water Services Act 2007 ; | ||
“Act of 2013” means the Water Services Act 2013 ; | ||
“Agency” means the Environmental Protection Agency; | ||
“city council” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2001; | ||
“Commission” means the Commission for Energy Regulation; | ||
“county council” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2001; | ||
“customer” means, in relation to the provision of water services, the occupier of the premises in respect of which the water services are provided; | ||
“enactment” has the same meaning as it has in the Interpretation Act 2005 ; | ||
“EU Water Framework Directive” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007; | ||
“excluded provision” means— | ||
(a) section 32(1)(b) (insofar as it relates to the provision, operation or maintenance of storm water sewers), | ||
(b) Part 4A, or | ||
(c) Part 6 (other than sections 91 and 92), | ||
of the Act of 2007; | ||
“investment plan” has the meaning assigned to it by section 34 ; | ||
“land” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007; | ||
“local authority” means— | ||
(a) a city council, or | ||
(b) a county council; | ||
“Minister” means the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government; | ||
“occupier” means, in relation to a premises, the person for the time being entitled to the occupation of the premises; | ||
“pipe” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007; | ||
“planning authority” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2000; | ||
“premises” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007 and includes part of a premises; | ||
“property” includes— | ||
(a) land, equipment, pipes, sewers, structures, waterworks and waste water works, and | ||
(b) moneys, stocks, shares and securities, | ||
but does not include storm water sewers; | ||
“sanitary authority” means a sanitary authority for the purposes of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts 1878 to 2001; | ||
“sewer” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007; | ||
“storm water” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007; | ||
“storm water sewer” means any pipe or other conduit— | ||
(a) used solely for the conveyance of storm water, or | ||
(b) designed or intended to be used for the conveyance of storm water (whether or not it is connected to a sewer by a storm water overflow within the meaning of the Waste Water Discharge (Authorisation) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 684 of 2007 )); | ||
“structure” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007; | ||
“transfer day” shall be construed in accordance with section 6 ; | ||
“waste water works” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007; | ||
“water charges plan” has the meaning assigned to it by section 22 ; | ||
“waterworks” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2007. |