Water Industry (Specified Infrastructure Projects) (English Undertakers) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 1582 of 2013).

These Regulations implement Part 2A of the Water Industry Act 1991 in relation to water and sewerage undertakers whose appointment areas are wholly or mainly in England. They give the Secretary of State and the Water Services Regulation Authority powers to specify by notice in writing an infrastructure project, which is a project which an incumbent water or sewerage undertaker must ordinarily undertake to fulfil its statutory duties under section 37 (general duty to maintain water supply system etc.) or 94 (general duty to provide sewerage system) of the Act. Once specified, the incumbent undertaker is prohibited from undertaking that infrastructure project, although the Secretary of State or the Authority may permit or require it to undertake such preparatory work as they may set out by notice in writing. The incumbent water or sewerage undertaker shall put a specified infrastructure project out to tender in accordance with these Regulations. Water and sewerage undertakers and infrastructure providers shall provide the Secretary of State with such information as may be reasonably required for the purposes of carrying out their functions under these Regulations.