{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-conservation-access-and-recreation-code-of-practice-order-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-conservation-access-and-recreation-code-of-practice-order-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1152",
  "legislation_title": "The Water and Sewerage (Conservation, Access and Recreation) (Code of Practice) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-conservation-access-and-recreation-code-of-practice-order-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 6th July 1989\nLaid before Parliament 7th July 1989\nComing into force 1st September 1989\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in relation to water undertakers and sewerage undertakers, and acting jointly with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in relation to the National Rivers Authority, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 10 of the Water Act 1989 and acting prior to any transfer date appointed under section 4 of that Act, hereby make the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 15; and see section 189(9) as to joint exercise of functions exercisable concurrently."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1152/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:41:08.624855+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."
}