{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1983/23",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-1983",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Council shall (if they have not done so before the appointed day)—\n(a) comply with paragraph 38 of Schedule 3 to the principle Act (statement of accounts) in relation to the last accounting year before the appointed day, and\n(b) comply with paragraph 40 of that Schedule (annual reports) in relation to that year,\nand shall also comply with those paragraphs in respect of the interval (if any) between the end of that accounting year and the appointed day, that interval being treated for the purposes of those paragraphs and of paragraphs 39 to 39G of Schedule 3 as an accounting year in relation to the Council.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall lay before each House of Parliament a copy of—\n(a) any statement of accounts, and any report, sent to him by the Council in compliance with this paragraph, and\n(b) any report made by the auditors on the statement or on the accounts to which it relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/23/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:09:20.864313+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."
}