Saur Water Services plc

1. Title of report: Mid Kent Holdings plc and General Utilities plc and SAUR Water Services plc  (Cm 3514)

2. Date of report: 9 December 1996 Published: 21 January 1997

3. Orders: N/A

4. Date of original undertakings: 8 May 1998

5. Companies giving undertakings: SAUR Water Services plc

6. Companies giving undertakings: Behavioural

(i) Not without the prior written consent of the Secretary of State to be a party or give effect to any arrangement with General Utilities PLC with respect to the business of Mid Kent Holdings plc or any of its subsidiaries which would give rise to a compulsory reference to the MMC under sections 32 to 35 of the Act or any statute substantially re-enacting those sections.

(ii) To procure that each of its subsidiaries complies with these undertakings as if it had given them.

(iii) To forthwith provide to the Director General such information as he may from time to time reasonably require for the purpose of monitoring compliance by SAUR and its subsidiaries with these undertakings.

7. Date of amendments: N/A

8. SIC code: 41.00 (collection and distribution of water)

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