{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1971-repealed-141996/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1971-repealed-141996/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/49",
  "legislation_title": "Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1971 (repealed 1.4.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-water-supplies-and-sewerage-act-1971-repealed-141996",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Short title repeals and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1971.\n(2) The Rural Supplies and Sewerage (No. 2) Act 1955, the said Act of 1965 and in section 1(3) of the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1955 the words “or, as the case may be, by subsection (5)” are hereby repealed.\n(3) This Act does not extend to Scotland except so far as it relates to the said section 1(3) and does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1955 c. 15. (4 Eliz. 2.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1955 c. 13."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 2(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/49/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:51.418525+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."
}