42 tal-2010 - Ordni tal-2010 li jemenda l-Att dwar il-Korporazzjoni għas-Servizzi ta’ l-Ilma

L.N. 42 of 2010

WATER SERVICES CORPORATION ACT

(CAP. 355)

Water Services Corporation Act (Amendment) Order, 2010

BY virtue of the powers conferred by article 22 of the Water

Services Corporation Act, the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport

and Communications has made the following order: -

(1) This order may be cited as the Water Services

Corporation Act (Amendment) Order, 2010, and it shall be read

and construed as one with the Water Services Corporation Act.

(2) This order shall be deemed to have come into effect

on the 1st January, 2010.

Immediately after item 7 of the Schedule to the Water

Services Corporation Act there shall be added the following new

item 8

“8. (a) Notwithstanding the other provisions of

this Act and of this Schedule, the Corporation may, with the

written authority of the Minister, engage or contract any third

party to perform a meter-reading, account keeping and bill

collection service and any other function ancillary to such

services, whether jointly with and, or separately from either

or both the Corporation and Enemalta.

(b) Where an engagement or contract is made

by the Corporation in pursuance of paragraph (a) above, the

powers and functions vested in the Corporation by virtue

of this Act and the Schedule thereto shall mutatis mutandis

vest in and apply to any third party engaged or contracted by

virtue of the said paragraph (a).

(c) Notice of any engagement or contract made

in pursuance of the provisions of paragraph (a) above shall be

published by notice in the Gazette.”.

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