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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/schedule-7/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/schedule-7/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/37",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 67 (ecclesiastical property) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsections (1) and (2), after “Where the relevant land belongs to a benefice” there is inserted “ or (in the case of a licence under this Chapter to abstract water) where it is a benefice which has a right of access to the relevant land ”.\n(3) In subsection (8), in the definition of “the relevant land”, for paragraph (a) there is substituted—\n“(a) the land to which an applicant for a licence to abstract water is required by section 35 above to have a right of access; or”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 8 in force at 1.4.2006 by S.I. 2006/984, art. 2(s)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:55.574536+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."
}