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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-and-water-management-act-2010/schedule-4/paragraph-27",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/29",
  "legislation_title": "Flood and Water Management Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-and-water-management-act-2010",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 14 (abandonment) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2) for the words from “before” to “afterwards” substitute “ within the period specified in the report ”.\n(3) At the end add—\n“(6) The Minister may by regulations make provision about what is and is not to be treated for the purposes of this Act as—\n(a) abandonment of use of a large raised reservoir as a reservoir, and\n(b) bringing a large raised reservoir back into use as a reservoir.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 27 in force at 1.10.2011 for specified purposes by S.I. 2011/2204, art. 3(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 27 in force at 30.7.2013 for E. so far as not already in force by S.I. 2013/1590, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 27 in force at 1.4.2016 for W. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2016/79, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/29/schedule/4/paragraph/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:54.061019+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."
}