{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014/schedule-7/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014/schedule-7/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/21",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 17F (procedure for granting water supply licences) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the title, after “water supply” there is inserted “ and sewerage ”.\n(3) In subsection (4)—\n(a) the words “the Secretary of State or” are repealed;\n(b) the words “he or”, in each place they occur, are repealed.\n(4) In subsection (7)—\n(a) the words “the Secretary of State or” are repealed;\n(b) for paragraph (g) there is substituted—\n“(g) on each water supply licensee and sewerage licensee (other than the holder of the licence in question);”;\n(c) paragraph (h) is repealed;\n(d) in paragraph (i), the words “if the licence or variation is granted by the Authority,” are repealed.\n(5) In subsection (8), the words “by the Secretary of State or” are repealed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 15(1) in force at 1.1.2016 for specified purposes by S.I. 2015/1938, art. 3(f)(vi)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 15(1) in force at 1.4.2016 for specified purposes by S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(m), Sch. 1 para. 1(i) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 15(2)(4)(b) in force at 1.4.2016 by S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(m), Sch. 1 para. 1(i) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 15(3)(4)(a)(c)(d)(5) in force at 1.1.2016 by S.I. 2015/1938, art. 3(f)(v)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/7/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:35.602503+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."
}