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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-7-and-transitional-provisions-order-2016/introduction",
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  "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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Water Industry, England And Wales\nMade 17th October 2016\nThe Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 91(1) and 94(3) of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 11 to, the Water Act 2014.",
  "extent": null,
  "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."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
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