{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1944-repealed-141996/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1944-repealed-141996/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/7-8/26",
  "legislation_title": "Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 (repealed 1.4.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1944-repealed-141996",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Short title, extent and repeals.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944.\n(2) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nThe repeal of provisions of the Public Health Act 1936, shall not affect any expenses in so far as they are defrayed out of rates made in respect of periods ending before the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-five.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/26/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:44.672002+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."
}