{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-specified-enactments-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-specified-enactments-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1042",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Abstraction (Specified Enactments) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-specified-enactments-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specified enactments",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Water Resources Act 1991 are specified for the purposes of section 102(5)(b) of the Water Act 2003—\n(a) section 21 (minimum acceptable flows);\n(b) section 39(2) and (5) (which relate to existing rights and privileges);\n(c) section 40 (obligations to take river flow etc. into account).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 21 was amended by paragraphs 128 and 133 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), by section 8 and Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Water Act 2003, and by S.I. 1997/2971, 2002/2626 and 2013/755 (W. 90)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 39(2) and (5) was amended by paragraph 128 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 and by S.I. 2013/755 (W. 90)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 40 was amended by paragraph 128 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995, by paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 7 to the Water Act 2003 and by S.I. 2013/755 (W. 90)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1042/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:06.443065+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."
}