{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-licences-cross-border-applications-scotland-order-2016/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/52",
  "legislation_title": "The Water and Sewerage Services Licences (Cross-Border Applications) (Scotland) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-licences-cross-border-applications-scotland-order-2016",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Water and Sewerage Services Licences (Cross-Border Applications) (Scotland) Order 2016 and comes into force on 1st April 2016.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1991 Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991;\n“1991 Act application” means an application under section 17F of the 1991 Act (procedure for granting licences) for the grant of a water supply licence or a sewerage licence;\n“the 2005 Act” means the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005;\n“the Authority” means the Water Services Regulation Authority; and\n“the Commission” means the Water Industry Commission for Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c.56, as relevantly amended by the 2014 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 17F was added by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Water Act 2003 (c.37) and amended by S.I. 2013/755. Section 17F is prospectively amended by section 25 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 7 to, the 2014 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/52/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:27.223449+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."
}