Water Services Act 2013
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Provision of information to Board and subsidiary. |
26.— (1) The subsidiary may request a relevant person to provide the subsidiary with such information— | |
(a) as the subsidiary may reasonably require to enable it to perform its functions under this Act, or | ||
(b) as the subsidiary could reasonably be expected to require, were functions (other than functions referred to in paragraph (a)) the same as or similar to those vested in a water services authority under the Act of 2007 conferred on it. | ||
(2) The Board may request a relevant person to provide the Board with such information— | ||
(a) as the Board may reasonably require to enable it to perform its functions under this Act, or | ||
(b) as the Board could reasonably be expected to require, were functions (other than functions referred to in paragraph (a)) the same as or similar to those vested in a water services authority under the Act of 2007 conferred on it. | ||
(3) A relevant person shall comply with a request under this section. | ||
(4) The Act of 2007 is amended— | ||
(a) in section 6, by the substitution of “water services authority, Bord Gáis Éireann, Irish Water” for “water services authority” in each place that it occurs, and | ||
(b) in section 7, by the substitution of “water services authority, Bord Gáis Éireann, Irish Water” for “water services authority”. | ||
(5) For the purposes of this section, each of the following is a relevant person: | ||
(a) a local authority within the meaning of the Act of 2001; | ||
(b) the Private Residential Tenancies Board established under section 150 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 ; | ||
(c) the Property Services Regulatory Authority established under section 9 of the Property Services Regulation Act 2011; | ||
(d) the holder for the time being of a licence granted under subsection (1) of section 14 of the Act of 1999 for the purposes of paragraph (g) of that subsection; | ||
(e) the Local Government Management Agency established by the Local Government Management Agency (Establishment) Order 2012 ( S.I. No. 290 of 2012 ); | ||
(f) the Revenue Commissioners; | ||
(g) the Minister for Social Protection; | ||
(h) any other person for the time being standing prescribed by order made by the Minister after consultation with the Data Protection Commissioner; | ||
(i) a customer within the meaning of the Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act 2002 , or a final customer within the meaning of the Act of 1999, of the Board. |