{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-england-amendment-regulations-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/707",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Water Supplies (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-england-amendment-regulations-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Water, England\nMade 14th June 2018\nLaid before Parliament 18th June 2018\nComing into force 11th July 2018\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by—\n(a) sections 67, 77(3) and (4) and 213(2) of the Water Industry Act 1991; and\n(b) section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the environment.\nThe Secretary of State has carried out the public consultation required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c.56. Section 213(2) was amended by paragraph 28 of Schedule 1 to the Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (c.43) and by section 36(2) of, and paragraph 49(3) of Schedule 8 to, the Water Act 2003 (c.37). It has also been amended by paragraph 119(4) of Schedule 7 to the Water Act 2014 (c.21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No L 31, 1.2.2002, p 1, as last amended by Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 (OJ No L 189, 27.6.14 p 1)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/707/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."
}