Water Industry Competition Act 2006
8KComposite operator and retailer licences
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 8K
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Water Industry Competition Act 2006.
8K Composite operator and retailer licences
8K Composite operator and retailer licences
(1) An operator licence and retailer licence may be applied for and granted together as the component licences of a composite licence.
(2) An application for a composite licence is to be dealt with and determined as if it were an application for each of the component licences of the composite licence.
(3) A composite licence operates as both the operator licence and retailer licence that are its component licences and each of the licences is, as a component licence, subject to the conditions to which it would be subject as a separate licence.
(4) The regulations may make provision for the following—
(a) the circumstances in which an operator licence and retailer licence may or must be applied for as a composite licence,
(b) the splitting of a composite licence into its component licences.
s 8K: Ins 2021 No 26, Sch 1[4].