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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sustainable-drainage-approval-and-adoption-wales-order-2018/article-7",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2018/1074",
  "legislation_title": "The Sustainable Drainage (Approval and Adoption) (Wales) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sustainable-drainage-approval-and-adoption-wales-order-2018",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Determining requests for adoption",
  "text": "(1) The period within which an approving body for a drainage system must determine a request to adopt a drainage system is—\n(a) 8 weeks beginning on the first working day after it receives the request, or\n(b) any extended period agreed to by the approving body and developer before the end of the period in sub-paragraph (a).\n(2) An approving body which fails to determine a request within the period specified in paragraph (1) is deemed to have refused the request.\n(3) In this article—\n“request to adopt” (“archiad i fabwysiadu”) means a request pursuant to paragraph 23(2)(b) of Schedule 3;\n“working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, a bank holiday within the meaning of section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 , or other public holiday in Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "“Approving body” is defined in paragraph 6 of Schedule 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "“Developer” is defined in relation to a request to adopt in paragraph 23(2)(b) of Schedule 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/1074/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:46.428556+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."
}