{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highland-regional-council-forest-spring-storr-skye-water-order-1987/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1391",
  "legislation_title": "The Highland Regional Council (Forest Spring, Storr, Skye) Water Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highland-regional-council-forest-spring-storr-skye-water-order-1987",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Water (Scotland) Act 1980;\n“approved” means approved by the Secretary of State;\n“the Council” means the Highland Regional Council as water authority;\n“day” means a period of 24 hours reckoned from midnight;\n“deposited plan” means the plan, prepared in duplicate, docqueted and signed as relative to this Order and marked “The Highland Regional Council (Forest Spring, Storr, Skye) Water Order 1987 Plans and Section of Works”, one copy of which is deposited in the Scottish Office, New St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh, and the other in the office of the Chief Executive of the Council at Inverness;\n“gauge” includes a gauge weir or other apparatus for measuring the flow of water;\n“intake” includes any work by which water is taken by the Council for the purposes of the undertaking;\n“undertaking” means the water undertaking for the time being of the Council;\n“works” means the works described in Schedule 1 to this Order which the Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 21 of the Act, and in the lines and situations and according to the levels shown on the deposited plan, propose to construct and maintain for the purpose of providing a supply of water within their limits of supply when they have acquired the necessary lands or sufficient rights therein.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1391/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:22:15.415723+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."
}