{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1948-repealed-1121991/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1948-repealed-1121991/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/22",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 1948 (repealed 1.12.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1948-repealed-1121991",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Compulsory acquisition of land for construction of waterworks.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, an order under section twenty-three or section nine of the principal Act authorising any persons to construct or alter waterworks or works connected therewith may authorise those persons to acquire compulsorily any land required for the construction or alteration of those works, being land which they could be so authorised to acquire by means of a compulsory purchase order made under section twenty-four of the principal Act, or under that section as amended by the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 as the case may be.\n(2) The provisions of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to an order under the said section twenty-three or the said section nine which authorises any such acquisition as aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 2, 3, 4(1), 7-11, 14, 15, Sch. repealed (with saving) (1.9.1989) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 190(3), 194(3), Sch. 27, Pt. I (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)-(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 41(1), 57(6), 58)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1946 c. 49."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/22/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:26.878260+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."
}