Sewerage Sector Guidance (Appendix G) - Panel Terms of Reference
| Date | 24 January 2023 |
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Sewerage Sector Guidance
Appendix G -Panel Terms of Reference
SEWERAGE SECTOR GUIDANCE PANEL
TERMS OF REFERENCE
1. INTRODUCTION
This document sets out the Terms of Reference for the panel (the Panel) established to
consider Change Proposals to the Sewerage Sector Guidance and the Model Sewerage
Adoption Agreement unde r the Ofwat Code for Adoption Agreements, August 2018 as that
code may be revised from time to time (the Code).
2. DEFINITIONS2.1 In these Terms of Reference, the following definitions apply in
addition to those definitions included elsewhere in these Terms of Reference:
(a) Business Day means a day on which banks are ordinarily open for business in England,
not being a Saturday or Sunday;
(b) Change Proposal means proposed change to the Sewerage Sector Guidance or the
Model Adoption Agreement;
(c) Customer means a customer of a Sewerage Company’s developer services at any point
in the process to adopt infrastructure from the point of application for an adoption
agreement to the completion of that agreement. This does not include the End-User
Customer but includes Developers;
(d) Developer means any person or company which is responsible for a Development;
(e) Development means premises on which there are buildings, or on which there will be
buildings when proposals made by any person for the erection of any buildings are
carried out, and which require connection with, or modification of, existing sewerage
infrastructure;
(f) End User Customer means the owner or occupier of premises who receives a supply
of water and/ or sewerage services from a relevant Sewerage Company or Licensed
Retailer. For the purposes of these Terms of Reference, this does not include
Developers or Licensed Retailers;
(g) Guidance means the Sewerage Sector Guidance approved by Ofwat under paragraph
3.2.4 of the Code;
(h) Implementation Date means the date on which the Sewerage Sector Guidance comes
into effect;
(i) Independent means not involved or interested in the provision of water and/or
sewerage services to consumers in England an d Wales in any manner whatsoever
(including, without limitation, as an officer or employee of, consultant to or investor
in a Sewerage Company, Licensed Retailer or otherwise involved in the provision of
water and/or sewerage services to consumers in England and Wales, other than (i) as
a consumer or (ii) as a person appointed under these Terms of Reference);
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