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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/schedule-8/paragraph-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/37",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/50",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 219 (general interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) in paragraph (a) of the definition of “customer or potential customer”, at the end there is inserted “ (other than a licensed water supplier) ”,\n(b) in the definition of “water main”—\n(i) after “water undertaker” there is inserted “ or licensed water supplier ”, and\n(ii) after “of the undertaker” there is inserted “ or supplier ”, and\n(c) in the appropriate place there is inserted—\n““licensed water supplier” shall be construed in accordance with section 17B(9) above;”.\n(3) After subsection (4) there is inserted—\n“(4A) In this Act, unless otherwise stated, references to the supply system of a water undertaker are to the water mains and other pipes which it is the undertaker’s duty to develop and maintain by virtue of section 37 above.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 50 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. 50 in force at 1.12.2005 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2005/2714, art. 3(c) (with Sch. para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 50(3) in force at 1.10.2004 for specified purposes by S.I. 2004/2528, art. 2(t)(v) (with Sch. para. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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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."
}