7 Arrangements with the Water Services Regulation Authority

7  Arrangements with the Water Services Regulation Authority

(1)     The Water Services etc (Scotland) Act 2005 is amended as follows.

(2)     In Schedule 2 (procedure for granting licences), after paragraph 1 there is inserted—

“1A Applications forwarded by the Water Services Regulation Authority

(1)     The Scottish Ministers may by order make provision about—

(a)     treating an application under section 17F of the 1991 Act for the grant of a water supply licence giving a retail authorisation or a restricted retail authorisation as being also an application under paragraph 1 for the grant of a water services licence;

(b)     treating an application under section 17F of the 1991 Act for the grant of a sewerage licence giving a retail authorisation as being also an application under paragraph 1 for the grant of a sewerage services licence.

(2)     The order may in particular make provision about—

(a)     the circumstances in which, and the

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