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The Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2013

S.S.I. 2013/252 · Made 3 September 2013

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Environmental Protection

Water

Made 3rd September 2013

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 5th September 2013

Coming into force 21st September 2013

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 38(1) of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2003 asp 3.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Appointed day
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2013 and comes into force on 21st September 2013.

2Appointed day

21st September 2013 is the appointed day on which section 23 (fixing of charges for water services) of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 comes into force.

Signature

PAUL WHEELHOUSE

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

3rd September 2013

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force section 23 of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Act”) on 21st September 2013. Section 23 of the Act empowers the Scottish Ministers to make regulations containing provision for or in connection with the fixing of charges for the provision of water services for the purposes of the protection of the water environment.

The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 5th March 2003. Part 3 (sections 35 to 38) of the Act also came into force on that day.