{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1948-repealed-1121991/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1948-repealed-1121991/section-4.json",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  "legislation_title": "Water Act 1948 (repealed 1.12.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1948-repealed-1121991",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/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Supply of Water in bulk",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (1) of section twelve of the principal Act (which authorises the making of agreements between statutory water undertakers and other persons for the supply of water in bulk) shall have effect as if for the words “Any statutory water undertakers may enter into an agreement with any other persons” there were substituted the words “An agreement may be made between any statutory water undertakers and any other persons”.\n2)—(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "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 repealed (with saving) (1.9.1989) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 190(3), 194(3), Sch. 27, Pt.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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(2)–(4) repealed by Water Act 1973 (c. 37), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 4(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/22/section/4",
    "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."
}