{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/773",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Water Industry, England And Wales\nMade 16th March 2015\nThe Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 91(1), (3) and (4) and 94(3) of the Water Act 2014.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2014 c.21. The power in section 94(3) to appoint a day on which the remaining provisions of the 2014 Act come into force is vested in the “appropriate authority”. Section 94(6) provides that the appropriate authority is the Secretary of State except as stated in the table in Schedule 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/773/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:42.237644+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."
}