{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-and-water-services-scotland-act-2003-commencement-no-7-order-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/530",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-and-water-services-scotland-act-2003-commencement-no-7-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force further provisions of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Act”) on 14th December 2007, which provide as follows:–\nSection 12 concerns the submission of a river basin management plan by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to the Scottish Ministers;\nSection 13 concerns the approval process in relation to the river basin management plan;\nSection 14 concerns the review of river basin management plans;\nSection 16 concerns the duty of the Scottish Ministers and public bodies to have regard to river basin management plans and sub-basin plans; and\nSection 19 contains general regulation making powers of the Scottish Ministers in relation to river basin management plans.\nThe Act received Royal Assent on 5th March 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/530/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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