{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1938",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions of the 2014 Act coming into force on 1st January 2016",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2014 Act come into force on 1st January 2016—\n(a) section 1 (types of water supply licence and arrangements with water undertakers) as follows—\n(i) subsection (1) so far as it substitutes section 17A(2) to (6) of the 1991 Act; and\n(ii) subsection (2);\n(b) section 4 (types of sewerage licence and arrangements with sewerage undertakers) as follows—\n(i) subsection (1) so far as it inserts section 17BA(2) to (5) into the 1991 Act; and\n(ii) subsection (2);\n(c) section 56 so far as it relates to paragraph (f);\n(d) Schedule 1 (water supply licences: authorisations);\n(e) Schedule 3 (sewerage licences: authorisations); and\n(f) in Schedule 7—\n(i) paragraph 11;\n(ii) paragraph 12(2);\n(iii) paragraph 12(1) so far as it relates to sub-paragraph (ii);\n(iv) paragraph 13;\n(v) paragraph 15(3), (4)(a), (c) and (d) and (5);\n(vi) paragraph 15(1) so far as it relates to sub-paragraph (v);\n(vii) paragraphs 16 to 18; and\n(viii) paragraph 2 so far as it relates to sub-paragraphs (i) to (vii).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 coming into force at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 17A of the 1991 Act was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Water Act 2003 (c.37)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1938/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:05.998717+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."
}