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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2714",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER\nMade 29th September 2005\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by sections 104(6)(a) and 105(3) to (6) of the Water Act 2003 and having consulted the National Assembly for Wales, makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The power in section 105(3) to appoint a day on which provisions of the Water Act 2003 shall come into force is vested in the “appropriate authority”. The appropriate authority in relation to provisions of the Act for which a day is appointed by this Order is the Secretary of State after consulting “the Assembly” (the National Assembly for Wales: section 105(2))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2714/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}