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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/37",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Licensing of other water suppliers",
  "text": "Schedule 4, which contains amendments to the WIA to provide for the licensing of suppliers of water other than water undertakers, is to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 1.4.2004 for specified purposes by S.I. 2004/641, art. 3(l), Sch. 1 (with Sch. 3 para. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 1.8.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/968, art. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 1.10.2005 for specified purposes by S.I. 2005/2714, art. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 1.12.2005 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2005/2714, art. 3(a)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/37/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:55.574536+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}