{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-provisions-order-2016/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-provisions-order-2016/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1007",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-provisions-order-2016",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provision in respect of wholesale authorisations",
  "text": "(1) Until paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act comes into force to the extent that it substitutes section 66B(1) of the 1991 Act, the Authority must not grant a water supply licence with a wholesale authorisation under section 17A(1) of the 1991 Act.\n(2) The restriction in paragraph (1) does not apply if a water supply licence with a wholesale authorisation is granted to—\n(a) a person who has a water supply licence with a retail authorisation; or\n(b) a person who has applied for a water supply licence with a retail authorisation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 17A was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Water Act 2003 (c.37), and substituted by section 1(1) of the 2014 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1007/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:11.124148+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."
}