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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-scotland-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3047",
  "legislation_title": "The Surface Waters (Abstraction for Drinking Water) (Classification) (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER, SCOTLAND\nMade 3rd December 1996\nLaid before Parliament 16th December 1996\nComing into force 6th January 1997\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 30B and 41 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974, and, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution of water, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 40: section 30B was inserted, as part of a substitution of a new Part II of the Act, by the Water Act 1989 (c. 15) section 169 and Schedule 23, paragraph 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2393."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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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."
}