Regulations, 2010

L.N. 31 of 2010

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Water Supply and Sewerage Services (Amendment)

Regulations, 2010

IN exercise of the powers conferred by sub-article (1) of

article 28 of the Malta Resources Authority Act, the Minister for

Resources and Rural Affairs, after consultation with the Malta

Resources Authority has made the following regulations

(1) The title of these regulations is Water Supply and

Sewerage Services (Amendment) Regulations, 2010 and they shall

be read and construed as one with the Water Supply and Sewerage

Services Regulations, 2004 hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the

15th of January, 2010 except for paragraph (b) of regulation 3

hereof which shall come into force on such date as the Minister

responsible for resources shall order by notice in the Gazette.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations, shall be

amended as follows

(a) the definitions “konsumatur” and “konsumatur

aħħari” in the Maltese text shall be deleted and for the words

“konsumatur” and “konsumatur aħħari” wherever they occur

in the principal regulations, there shall be substituted the

words “klijent” and “klijent aħħari” respectively;

(b) for the definition “customer” there shall be

substituted the following: “ “customer” means and includes

any natural or legal person who is supplied with water from

a water supplier and, or who receives sewerage services from

a sewerage service operator, and wherever it occurs in these

regulations, it shall also include “final customer;”;

(c) for the definition “ “final customer” there shall be

substituted the following

“ “final customer” means any natural or legal

person who is supplied with water from a water supplier

for his own use and, or who receives sewerage services

from a sewerage services operator for his own use;”;

(d) for the definition “sewerage services” there shall

be substituted the following

“ “sewerage services” means the carrying out of all

or any of the activities regarding collection of sewage,

treatment, transfer and, or disposal of waste water and

the transfer and, or disposal and, or supply and, or retail

of effluent, whether or not such activities are carried out

against a fee, charge or any other form of remuneration,

howsoever it may be described;”;

(e) for the definition “supply of water” there shall be

substituted the following

“ “supply of water” means and includes the

carrying out of all or any of the activities regarding

treatment, transfer, distribution, supply and, or retail

of water other than bottled water, whether or not such

activities are carried against a fee, charge, or any other

form of remuneration, howsoever it may be described,

but does not include water abstraction;”;

(f) immediately after the definition “public water

distribution network” there shall be inserted the following

new definition

“ “seawater” means water which has an electrical

conductivity of more than 50,000 µS/cm;”;

(g) immediately after the definition “sewage collection

system” there shall be inserted the following new definition

“ “sewage collection tanker” means any

vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer which has a capacity of

transporting a volume of sewage of not less than three

cubic meters;”; and

(h) immediately after the definition “water distribution

network” there shall be added the following new definition

“ “water tanker” means any vehicle, trailer or semi-

trailer which has a capacity of transporting a volume of

water of not less than three cubic meters;”.

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) immediately after sub-regulation (1) (a) (iv) thereof

there shall be added the following new item

“(v)

supply of water for own use by water

tankers;”;

(b) immediately after sub-regulation (1) (b) (iv) thereof

there shall be added the following new item

“(v) carrying out sewerage services for own use

by a sewage collection tanker;”;

(c) sub-regulations (2) and (3) thereof shall be deleted;

(d) immediately after sub-regulation (1) thereof there

shall be added the following new sub-regulation

“(2) This regulation shall apply to any person

providing or offering a service, or operating a system, or

carrying out a service activity or the exercise thereof in

terms of these regulations whether or not such service,

system or service activity or the exercise thereof are

carried out against a fee, charge or any other form of

remuneration, howsoever it may be described.”.

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