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Malta Resources Authority Act (Cap. 423) Water Supply And Sewerage Services (Amendment) 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:

Title and commencement.

L.N. 525 of 2004

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Amends regulation

2 of 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.

(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 ) f o r t h e d e fi n i t i o n “ c u s t o m e r ” t h e r e s h a l l b e 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:
“ “ s u p p l y o f w a t e r ” m e a n s a n d i n c l u d e s t h e 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:
“ “ s e w a g e c o l l e c t i o n t a n k e r ” m e a n s a n y 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:
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“ “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;”.

Amends regulation

3 of the principal regulations.

(a) immediately after sub-regulation (1) (a) (iv) thereof there shall be added the following new item:
“ ( v ) s u p p l y o f w a t e r f o r o w n u s e b y w a t e r 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;”;
and
(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.”.