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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-authorities-successor-companies-order-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-authorities-successor-companies-order-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1465",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Authorities (Successor Companies) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-authorities-successor-companies-order-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 8th August 1989\nComing into force 9th August 1989\nThe Secretary of State for Wales, in relation to the Welsh Water Authority, and the Secretary of State for the Environment, in relation to the other water authorities, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 4(2) of the Water Act 1989 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 15."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1465/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."
}