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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/21",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2014",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Procedure",
  "text": "(1) Before making exit regulations, the Secretary of State is to consult—\n(a) the Welsh Ministers;\n(b) the WSRA;\n(c) the CMA;\n(d) the Consumer Council for Water;\n(e) relevant undertakers whose areas are wholly or mainly in England;\n(f) water supply licensees and sewerage licensees;\n(g) persons whom the Secretary of State considers to represent the interests of investors in the water industry.\n(2) The power to make exit regulations is to be exercised by statutory instrument.\n(3) A statutory instrument containing exit regulations made by the Secretary of State may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53(1)(a)-(e) (g) (2) (3) in force at 6.4.2015 by S.I. 2015/773, art. 2(2)(b)(x) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 53(1)(f) in force at 6.4.2015 for specified purposes by S.I. 2015/773, art. 2(2)(b)(x) (with art. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:35.602503+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}