{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-45.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/37",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/45",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 203 (power to acquire information for enforcement purposes) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), for the words from “that a company” to “section 18 above” there is substituted—\n“(a) in the case of a company which holds an appointment as a relevant undertaker, that the company—\n(i) may be contravening, or may have contravened, any condition of the appointment or any statutory or other requirement enforceable under section 18 above; or\n(ii) may be causing or contributing to, or may have caused or contributed to, a contravention by a company holding a licence under Chapter 1A of Part 2 of this Act of any condition of the licence or any statutory or other requirement enforceable under section 18 above; or\n(b) in the case of a company which holds a licence under that Chapter, that the company—\n(i) may be contravening, or may have contravened, any condition of the licence or any statutory or other requirement enforceable under section 18 above; or\n(ii) may be causing or contributing to, or may have caused or contributed to, a contravention by a company holding an appointment as a relevant undertaker of any condition of the appointment or any statutory or other requirement enforceable under section 18 above,”.\n(3) In subsection (7)—\n(a) after “this Act” there is inserted “ or of a licence under Chapter 1A of that Part ”, and\n(b) after “such an appointment” there is inserted “ or licence ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 45 in force at 1.12.2005 by S.I. 2005/2714, art. 3(c) (with Sch. para. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/37/schedule/8/paragraph/45",
    "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."
}