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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-1975/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-1975/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/23",
  "legislation_title": "Reservoirs Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-1975",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make futher provision against escapes of water from large reservoirs or from lakes or lochs artificially created or enlarged.\n[8th May 1975]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: power to modify conferred by Local Government (Interim Provisions) Act 1984 (c. 53, SIF 81:1), s. 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act modified by Channel Tunnel Act 1987 (c. 53, SIF 102), s. 6, Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 6 (with s. 45, Sch. 7 Pt. VI para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act modified (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 42, s. 25(2) (with s. 30(1), Sch. 2 para. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act amended (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/593, reg. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act: transfer of functions (W.) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1 (as amended (1.10.2004) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 100(1)(6), 105(3) (with s. 100(7)); S.I. 2004/2528, art. 2(s)(i) (with Sch. paras. 7, 8) (which transitional provisions in Sch. para. 7 are revoked (1.4.2005) by S.I. 2005/968, art. 4)Act excluded (18.7.2000) by S.I. 2000/1884, art. 38"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 29(1); Act wholly in force at 1.4.1987."
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/23/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."
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