{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/boston-barrier-order-2017/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1329",
  "legislation_title": "The Boston Barrier Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/boston-barrier-order-2017",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "River not to be a reservoir",
  "text": "Regardless of the provisions of section A1 of the Reservoirs Act 1975, no part of the river as is impounded by the scheduled works is, by virtue of the retention of water by means of the scheduled works, to be taken to be a reservoir for the purposes of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 8 in force at 2.1.2018, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 23. Section A1 was inserted by section 33 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1329/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:03:55.135438+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}