{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/three-valleys-water-order-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/three-valleys-water-order-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1878",
  "legislation_title": "The Three Valleys Water Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/three-valleys-water-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 26th October 1988\nComing into force 1st November 1988\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, on the application of the Colne Valley Water Company, the Rickmansworth Water Company and the Lee Valley Water Company, being statutory water undertakers, and in exercise of powers conferred by sections 33, 50 and 59(1) of the Water Act 1945 and now vested in him, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Water Act 1973 (c. 37), section 11(6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the definition of “Minister”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1945 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1951/142, 1900, 1970/1681."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1878/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:49.934017+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."
}