Water Management Act 2000

A charging authority must, on written application being made to it and payment of the fee determined by it, issue to the applicant a certificate—

containing particulars of any amounts payable to the authority in respect of a parcel of separately assessed land, or

to the effect that there are no such amounts.

An application for a certificate must—

specify the name and address of the applicant, and

identify the land to which the application relates.

Such a certificate is conclusive proof, in favour of a purchaser in good faith and for value of the land to which the certificate relates that, at the date of its issue, no amounts were payable to the charging authority in respect of that land other than such amounts as are specified in the certificate.