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Late payment charge - dwellings
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4. (1) Where a customer of Irish Water has not paid any charges duly demanded of him or her by Irish Water, under section 21(1) of the No. 2 Act of 2013, for water services provided to a dwelling in respect of which he or she is the customer within a period of 12 months from the date of the issue of the first demand and has not entered into a payment plan with Irish Water and which the customer complies with for payment of the charges by such date as determined by Irish Water, that customer shall be charged, in addition to any arrears outstanding in respect of—
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(a) a dwelling which is occupied by not more than one adult as the place of his or her principal private residence, a late payment charge of not more than €30,
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(b) a dwelling which is occupied by 2 or more adults as the place of their principal private residence, a late payment charge of not more than €60, and
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(c) a dwelling which is occupied by a person as a place of his or her place of private residence but is not the place of his or her principal private residence, or to a premises which if it were occupied would constitute a dwelling, a late payment charge of not more than €60,
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in respect of each year that the arrears remain unpaid.
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(2) In this section reference to a dwelling includes a reference to a premises which if it was occupied would be a dwelling.
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(3) Where a dwelling is in receipt of one service in respect of water services provided by Irish Water, that is to say—
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(a) the supply of water to the dwelling, or
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(b) the removal of waste water from it,
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then the maximum charge that Irish Water may charge for that service in respect of the dwelling is an amount that is 50 per cent less than the amount that would be charged for water services to the dwelling in accordance with subsection (1) but for this subsection.
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(4) A late payment charge under this section is deemed to be a charge payable by the customer concerned under section 21(3) of the No. 2 Act of 2013.
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