{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-undertakers-pipelaying-and-other-works-code-of-practice-order-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3070",
  "legislation_title": "The Water and Sewerage Undertakers (Pipelaying and Other Works) (Code of Practice) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-undertakers-pipelaying-and-other-works-code-of-practice-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER INDUSTRY, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 8th November 1999\nWhereas each of the companies listed in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order (“the Companies”) holds an appointment under Chapter I of Part II of the Water Industry Act 1991 as a water and sewerage undertaker;\nAnd whereas each of the Companies has, pursuant to section 182(1)(a) of that Act, submitted to the Secretary of State for his approval a Code of Practice with respect to the exercise by that company of powers conferred by or by virtue of section 159 or 161(2) of that Act (“the Code of Practice”):\nAnd whereas the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to approve the Codes of Practice for the purpose of promoting what appear to him to be desirable practices with regard to the exercise by the Companies of those powers:\nNow therefore the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 182(2) of the Water Industry Act 1991, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Copies of the Code of Practice may be inspected at the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Ashdown House, Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE, and may be obtained free of charge from the office of each company listed in column (2) of the Schedule to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3070/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}