{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-appointment-competition-commission-regulations-1999/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3088",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Appointment (Competition Commission) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-appointment-competition-commission-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations:\n(a) “the 1973 Act” means the Fair Trading Act 1973;\n(b) “the 1991 Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991;\n(c) “the Commission” means the Competition Commission; and\n(d) “determination reference” means a reference made to the Commission for the determination of any question or other matter in pursuance of provisions contained in an instrument of appointment of a water or sewerage undertaker made under Chapter I of Part II of the 1991 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3088/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:30.140702+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."
}