{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-fluoridation-consultation-england-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-fluoridation-consultation-england-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/011072285X",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Fluoridation (Consultation) (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-fluoridation-consultation-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991;\n“fluoridation arrangements” means arrangements under section 87(1) of the Act;\n“local authority” means a county council, a district council, the Greater London Authority, a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London;\n“house” means any building or part of a building which is occupied as a dwelling-house, whether or not a private dwelling-house, or which, if unoccupied, is likely to be so occupied, and\n“Strategic Health Authority” means a Strategic Health Authority established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977 .\n(2) References to individuals who would be affected by a step concerning fluoridation arrangements are to those individuals who live in the area to which the arrangements relate, or work in that area on a regular basis.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 87 was substituted by the Water Act 2003, section 58(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c.49; section 8 was substituted by section 1 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002. (c.17)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/011072285X/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:32.284475+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."
}