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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2005/schedule/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2005/schedule/paragraph-8.json",
  "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": "schedule/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Effect of references to the Authority",
  "text": "Until 1st April 2006 any reference to the Authority in any provision of the WIA or the WRA introduced or amended by the Act and by virtue of this Order shall have effect as if it were a reference to the Director.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“WRA” means the Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57) (section 105(2) of the Act)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1021",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1021",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1021",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Act 2003 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2714/schedule/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:50:45.918398+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."
}