Water Sector Guidance (Appendix H) - Panel Terms of Reference
| Date | 24 January 2023 |
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240620 Water UK
Appendix H Water Sector Guidance
Draft 24 June 2020 TBC – Subject to Ofwat approval
WATER 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 Water Sector Guidance and the Model Wat er Adoption
Agreement under the Ofwat Code for Adoption Agreements, August 2018 as that code may
be revised from time to time (the Code).
2. DEFINITIONS2.1
2.1 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) Chair means the person appointed to chair the Panel under clause 7;
(c) Change Proposal means proposed change to the W ater Sector Guidance or
the Model Water Adoption Agreement;
(d) Contestable means services and/or works that can be provided either by the
relevant Water Company or by an alternative provider. This may include
works outside the physical boundary of the Development site;
(e) Customer means a customer of a Water 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 and Self-Lay
Providers;
(f) Developer means any person or company which is responsible for a
Development;
(g) 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 water infrastructure;
(h) Eligible SLP Customer means a Customer whose name appears on the list
maintained by Lloyds Register of Self-Lay Providers or any replacement list
considered by the Secretariat to contain substantially all Self-Lay Providers
(i) End User Customer means the owner or occupier of premises who receives a
supply of water from a relevant Water Company or Licensed Retailer. For the
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