Water Supply (Abstraction Licence) Regulations 1984 (S.I. 48 of 1984).

These Regulations lay down a scale of flat-rate charges for the abstraction of water under statutory licence. Different levels of charges are levied according to the uses of abstracted licence. A basic distinction is thus made between "trade, business, industrial or commercial" uses of water on the one hand, and all other uses on the other, the latter paying lower charges than the former. In addition, these former abstractions pay a greater or lesser charge according to the size of the premises supplied with water, such size being measured by the number of persons employed. Water-using branches of Government and non-profit organizations benefit from the lower levels of charges applicable to the non-industrial class of use.