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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/37",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 174 of the Water Act 1989 (general restrictions on disclosure of information) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (b) of subsection (2), for “or a sewerage undertaker” there is substituted “ , sewerage undertaker or company holding a licence under Chapter 1A of Part 2 of the Water Industry Act 1991 ”.\n(3) In paragraph (c) of that subsection, for “203(1) or (2)” there is substituted “ 203(1), (1A), (2) or (2A) ”.\n(4) In subsection (6)(a), after “sewerage undertaker” there is inserted “ , or with the carrying on by a company holding a licence under Chapter 1A of Part 2 of the Water Industry Act 1991 of activities under its licence, ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 1(1) in force at 1.4.2004 for specified purposes by S.I. 2004/641, art. 3(y), Sch. 2 (with Sch. 3 para. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 1(1)(4) in force at 1.12.2005 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2005/2714, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 1(2)(3) in force at 1.12.2005 by S.I. 2005/2714, art. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 1(4) in force at 1.4.2004 by S.I. 2004/641, art. 3(y), Sch. 2 (with Sch. 3 para. 7)"
    }
  ],
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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."
}