{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-water-undertakers-pension-schemes-order-1974/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-water-undertakers-pension-schemes-order-1974/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1974/525",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Water Undertakers (Pension Schemes) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-water-undertakers-pension-schemes-order-1974",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "The Water Act 1973 empowers statutory water undertakers to establish and administer pension arrangements for their employees, and requires all statutory water companies to participate in a superannuation scheme (called in the Act “the standard water company scheme”) which is to offer to their employees terms and benefits not less favourable than those offered by a corresponding superannuation scheme (“the standard water authority scheme”) to employees of water authorities.\nThis Order, which applies to England and Wales—\n(a) designates the scheme contained in Regulations under section 7 of the Superannuation Act 1972 as the standard water authority scheme (Article 3);\n(b) designates a corporation to manage the standard water company scheme (Article 4); and\n(c) prescribes a date before which certain existing employees of statutory water companies may opt that the standard water company scheme shall not apply to them (Article 5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/525/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:44:57.314179+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."
}