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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-wales-no-1-order-1978/schedule-3/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-wales-no-1-order-1978/schedule-3/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/272",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-wales-no-1-order-1978",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The functions under section 1(1) of the Water Act 1973 of the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food are hereby transferred to the Minister, the Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Wales jointly.\n(2) The functions under section 2(4), 5(1) and 24(5), (6), (11) and (12) of, paragraphs 11, 32, 38, 40 and 41 of Schedule 3, paragraph 15 of Schedule 6 and Schedule 7 to, that Act which are exercisable by the Minister of Agriculture. Fisheries and Food alone or jointly with the Secretary of State are, so far as they are exercisable in relation to the Welsh National Water Development Authority, hereby transferred to the Secretary of State.\n(3) The function of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State under section 2(5) of that Act of changing the name of the Welsh National Water Development Authority is hereby transferred to the Secretary of State.\n(4) The functions under sections 2(5) and 8(3) of that Act (except that to which sub-paragraph (3) above applies) which are exercisable by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State jointly are so far as they are exercisable in relation to the Welsh National Water Development Authority hereby transferred to the Secretary of State for the Environment, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Minister jointly.\n(5) The functions under sections 29, 30 and 31 of that Act which by virtue of section 62 of the Land Drainage Act 1976 (c.70) are exercisable by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State are so far as they are exercisable in relation to the Welsh National Water Development Authority hereby transferred to the Secretary of State.\n(6) The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to that Act are, so far as they are exercisable in relation to the area of the Welsh National Water Development Authority or of the Severn-Trent Water Authority, hereby transferred to that Minister and the Secretary of State jointly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/272/schedule/3/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:39:42.958542+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."
}