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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/newcastle-and-gateshead-water-order-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/newcastle-and-gateshead-water-order-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/56",
  "legislation_title": "The Newcastle and Gateshead Water Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/newcastle-and-gateshead-water-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 11th January 1988\nComing into force 12th January 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 the powers conferred by sections 23, 32, 33, 50, 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 definition of “Minister”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1945 c. 42. There are amendments to sections 23, 32, 33 and 59(1), but none are relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1951/142, 1900, 1970/1681."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/56/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."
}