{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/newcastle-and-gateshead-water-birch-trees-no-3-spring-order-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/newcastle-and-gateshead-water-birch-trees-no-3-spring-order-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1225",
  "legislation_title": "The Newcastle and Gateshead Water (Birch Trees No. 3 Spring) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/newcastle-and-gateshead-water-birch-trees-no-3-spring-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 13th July 1988\nComing into force 14th July 1988\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, on the application of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company, being statutory water undertakers(;), and in exercise of powers conferred by sections 23, 32(1) and 59(1)() of the Water Act 1945(;) and now vested in him(;), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Water Act 1973 (c. 37), section 11(6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the definition of “Minister”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1945 c. 42. There are amendments to sections 23 and 32, but none relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1225/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:03:30.058927+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."
}