{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-9-and-transitional-provisions-order-2017/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-9-and-transitional-provisions-order-2017/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/462",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014-commencement-no-9-and-transitional-provisions-order-2017",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Water Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2017.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1991 Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991;\n“the 2014 Act” means the Water Act 2014;\n“the Authority” means the Water Services Regulation Authority;\n“new retail authorisation” means a retail authorisation given by a new water supply licence;\n“new supplementary authorisation” means a supplementary authorisation given by a new water supply licence;\n“new water supply licence” means a water supply licence granted under new section 17A of the 1991 Act and “new water supply licensee” is to be construed accordingly;\n“new wholesale authorisation” means a wholesale authorisation given by a new water supply licence;\n“old water supply licence” means a water supply licence granted under old section 17A of the 1991 Act and “old water supply licensee” is to be construed accordingly;\n“relevant undertaker” means a water undertaker or a sewerage undertaker;\n“threshold requirement” is to be construed in accordance with old section 17D of the 1991 Act, as the requirement applies to premises supplied with water using the supply system of a water undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in England.\n(3) In this Order—\n(a) a reference to an old provision is a reference to a provision of the 1991 Act as it had effect before the coming into force of an amendment or repeal of that provision made by the 2014 Act;\n(b) a reference to a new provision is a reference to—\n(i) a provision of the 1991 Act after an amendment of that provision made by the 2014 Act has come into force, or\n(ii) a provision of the 1991 Act that was inserted by the 2014 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c.56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 17A was substituted by section 1(1) of the 2014 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Old section 17A was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Water Act 2003 (c.37)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 17D was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Water Act 2003 and amended by S.I. 2011/3014 and paragraph 12 of Schedule 7 to the 2014 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/462/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:08.009602+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."
}