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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-works-advance-payments-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1379",
  "legislation_title": "The Water and Sewerage (Works) (Advance Payments) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-works-advance-payments-regulations-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision for advance payment on account of compensation payable by a water undertaker, a sewage undertaker or the National Rivers Authority when it exercises powers conferred by paragraphs 4 and 5 of Schedule 19 to the Water Act 1989 (powers to carry out work other than street works and powers in relation to stopcocks).\nThe amount of the advance payment is 90% of the amount which the parties have agreed as the amount of compensation or, where no such agreement has been reached, 90% of the compensating authority’s estimate of the compensation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1379/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:11.131129+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."
}