{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-6-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-6-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/465",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 6, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-6-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "During the period beginning with 1st April 2016 and ending with 1st April 2017, in the following provisions of the 1991 Act, references to a water supply licence are to be read as including an old water supply licence, and references to a water supply licensee are to be read as including an old water supply licensee—\n(a) section 2 (general duties with respect to water industry);\n(b) section 2A (strategic priorities and objectives: England);\n(c) section 2B (strategic priorities and objectives: Wales);\n(d) sections 37A to 37D (water resources management plans);\n(e) section 39ZA (procedure for regulations under section 38ZA);\n(f) sections 39B and 39C (drought plans);\n(g) section 66DB (codes under section 66DA: procedure);\n(h) section 66EB (rules under section 66E: procedure);\n(i) section 144ZB (rules under section 144ZA: procedure);\n(j) section 144ZE (general guidance on charges); and\n(k) section 147 (charging for emergency use of water).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2 substituted (22.3.2017) by The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/462), art. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at made date"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/465/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:24:41.651240+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."
}