{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-and-water-services-scotland-act-2003-designation-of-responsible-authorities-and-functions-order-2006/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/126",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (Designation of Responsible Authorities and Functions) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-and-water-services-scotland-act-2003-designation-of-responsible-authorities-and-functions-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation of responsible authorities and functions",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers hereby designate as responsible authorities, the public bodies and office-holders referred to in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order, for the purposes of Part 1 of the Act.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers hereby specify as designated functions of each such body or office holder, such of the functions relating to the water environment as are conferred by the enactments shown in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order relative to each body or office holder.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/126/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:51.630490+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."
}