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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-1975-capacity-registration-prescribed-forms-etc-wales-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2016/80",
  "legislation_title": "The Reservoirs Act 1975 (Capacity, Registration, Prescribed Forms, etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-1975-capacity-registration-prescribed-forms-etc-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Flood Risk Management, Wales\nMade 27 January 2016\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 29 January 2016\nComing into force 1 April 2016\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections A1(4), 2(2) and (2C) to (2E), 3(1), 5, 11, 20(1), 21(1) and 21B of the Reservoirs Act 1975, make the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 (c.23). Sections A1, 2(2B) to 2(2E) and 21B were inserted in relation to England and Wales by section 33 of, and paragraphs 1, 2, 4 and 33 of Schedule 4 to, the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c.29). Sections 5, 11, 20 and 21 were amended in relation to England and Wales by paragraph 33 of, and paragraphs 5, 16 to 18, 23, 26, 28, 31 and 38 of Schedule 4 to, the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c.29). Sections 2, 3, 20 and 21 were amended by section 74 and 78 of the Water Act 2003 (c.37). Sections 2, 2A to 2D and section 21B were further amended by Article 4(1) of and paragraph 117, 119, 120 and 122 of Schedule 2 to, the Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755) (W. 90)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/80/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."
}