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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-compensation-regulations-1983/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1267",
  "legislation_title": "The Water (Compensation) Regulations 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-compensation-regulations-1983",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Section 3(1) and (3) of the Water Act 1983 provides that the Secretary of State may by order determine the functions of the National Water Council. Paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 to the Act empowers the Secretary of State to transfer to a specified water authority certain named liabilities of the Council.\nBy the Water Act 1983 (National Water Council Appointed Day) Order 1983 the Secretary of State for the Environment has appointed 1st October 1983 as the day on which the functions of the National Water Council are to determine.\nThese Regulations provide (regulations 3 and 4) that the liabilities of the National Water Council relating to certain specified payments shall be transferred to the Severn-Trent Water Authority on 30th September 1983 and shall become liabilities of that authority.\nThe Regulations also provide (regulation 5) that the Severn-Trent Water Authority (“the compensation authority”) may recover from each of the other water authorities a proportion of the cost incurred by the compensation authority under the Regulations, as determined by the Secretary of State from time to time.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/1267/note",
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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."
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