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Water Services Corporation Act (Cap. 355) Water Services Corporation Act (Amendment) Order, 2010 (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: -

Citation and commencement.

Amends the Schedule to the Water Services Corporation Act.

(2) This order shall be deemed to have come into effect on the 1st January, 2010.

“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.”.