{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hartlepools-water-company-constitution-and-regulation-order-1995/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/79",
  "legislation_title": "The Hartlepools Water Company (Constitution and Regulation) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hartlepools-water-company-constitution-and-regulation-order-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER INDUSTRY, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 16th January 1995\nLaid before Parliament 24th January 1995\nComing into force 14th February 1995\nWhereas provision is made for the constitution and regulation of the Hartlepools Water 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 I 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 12th December 1994 (“the special resolution”) proposed that provision contained in a memorandum and articles which are described in Schedule 1 to this Order, and 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his approval of the proposal by this Order that the local statutory provisions specified in Schedule 2 to this Order be repealed:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 12(1) and 14 of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:",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": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/79/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."
}