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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995/schedule-22/paragraph-115",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995/schedule-22/paragraph-115.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/25",
  "legislation_title": "Environment Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/22/paragraph/115",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "115",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 143 of that Act (charges schemes) after subsection (3) (charges which may be imposed in certain cases) there shall be inserted—\n“(3A) A sewerage undertaker is under a duty to ensure that any charges scheme made by the undertaker, so far as having effect to recover the undertaker’s costs of providing a sewer by virtue of its duty under section 101A(1) above, causes those costs to be borne by the undertaker’s customers generally; and a sewerage undertaker’s duty under this subsection shall be enforceable under section 18 above—\n(a) by the Secretary of State; or\n(b) with the consent of or in accordance with a general authorisation given by the Secretary of State, by the Director.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1995/25",
      "affecting_title": "Environment Act 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1995/25",
      "affecting_title": "Environment Act 1995"
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    {
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/25/schedule/22/paragraph/115",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:02.335333+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."
}