{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chester-waterworks-company-constitution-and-regulation-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/281",
  "legislation_title": "The Chester Waterworks Company (Constitution and Regulation) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chester-waterworks-company-constitution-and-regulation-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER INDUSTRY, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 11th February 1998\nLaid before Parliament 17th February 1998\nComing into force 13th March 1998\nWhereas provision is made for the constitution and regulation of the Chester Waterworks Company (“the Company”) in local statutory provisions (“the relevant provisions”);\nAnd whereas the Company is a statutory water company which holds an appointment as a water undertaker under Chapter 1 of Part II of the Water Industry Act 1991;\nAnd whereas the relevant provisions would, if the Company became a registered water company, have effect in accordance with paragraph 5 of Schedule 21 to the Companies Act 1985;\nAnd whereas the Company has by a special resolution passed on 29th October 1997 (“the special resolution”) proposed that provision contained in a memorandum and articles which are described in Schedule 1 to this Order (“the memorandum and articles”), copies of which have been certified as such by the Secretary of State, shall have effect in substitution for the relevant provisions (“the proposal”);\nAnd whereas it appears to the Secretary of State that the requirements set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 12(2) of the Statutory Water Companies Act 1991 (“the Act”) are satisfied as respects the proposal;\nAnd whereas it appears to the Secretary of State appropriate in consequence of his approval of the proposal by this Order that the local statutory provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Order be repealed;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 12(1) and 14 of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 15(2) of the Statutory Water Companies Act 1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1991 c. 58."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/281/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}