{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-and-water-management-act-2010-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2010/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2169",
  "legislation_title": "The Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-and-water-management-act-2010-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Coast Protection, England And Wales\nEnvironmental Protection, England And Wales\nFlood Risk Management, England And Wales\nWater Industry, England And Wales\nMade 31st August 2010\nThis Order is made—\n(a) in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State—\n(i) by sections 48(2) and 49(3)(a) and (j), (5)(a), (b) and (d) and (6) of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010,\n(ii) by section 49(3)(b) of that Act, so far as sections 22(1)(b) and (2), 24 and 26 of that Act relate to English Committees,\n(iii) by section 49(3)(d) of that Act, so far as sections 35, 36, 42, 43 and 45 of that Act relate to water or sewerage undertakers whose areas are wholly or mainly in England, and\n(iv) in relation to England, by section 49(3)(h) of that Act; and\n(b) in exercise of the powers conferred on the Welsh Ministers—\n(i) by section 48(2) of that Act,\n(ii) by section 49(3)(c) of that Act, so far as sections 22(1)(c) and (2), 24 and 26 of that Act relate to Welsh Committees,\n(iii) by section 49(3)(e) of that Act, so far as sections 36, 42 and 45 of that Act relate to water or sewerage undertakers whose areas are wholly or mainly in Wales, and\n(iv) in relation to Wales, by section 49(3)(i) and (6) of that Act.\nThe Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers make the following Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2010 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 22(1)(b) of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 for the meaning of an “English Committee”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 22(1)(c) of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 for the meaning of a “Welsh Committee”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2169/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."
}