Section 523 — Housing Act 1985: Assistance for provision of separate service pipe for water supply.

Assistance for provision of separate service pipe for water supply. 523 1 The local housing authority may, if they think fit, give assistance in respect of the provision of a separate service pipe for a house which has a piped supply of water from a water main but no separate service pipe.

2 The assistance shall be by way of a grant in respect of all or part of the expenses incurred in the provision of the separate service pipe.

3 The reference in subsection (2) to the expenses incurred in the provision of the separate service pipe includes, in a case where all or part of the works are carried out by . . . water undertakers (whether in exercise of default powers or otherwise), sums payable to the undertakers by the owner of the house, or any other person, for carrying out the works.