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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003-commencement-no-4-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/968",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003-commencement-no-4-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Succession to part of abstraction licence authorising abstraction other than a relevant abstraction",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) “relevant licence” means a licence—\n(i) authorising an abstraction which, both immediately before and immediately after the relevant date, was subject to the restriction on abstraction; and\n(ii) in relation to which—\n(aa) a precondition mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 50(1) of the WRA is satisfied before the relevant date; and\n(bb) a person, before 1st July 2006, makes an application under regulation 5;\n(b) “part licence” means a new licence that—\n(i) is granted, in accordance with regulation 5 or 6, in relation to a relevant licence; and\n(ii) relates to a relevant abstraction.\n(2) Except as provided by paragraph (3), a part licence shall have no effect.\n(3) A part licence shall have effect for the purposes of sections 48(1) and 189 of the WRA.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 8 in force at made date"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/968/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:00:41.761564+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."
}