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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-and-water-services-scotland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "asp/2003/3",
  "legislation_title": "Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-and-water-services-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Publicity and consultation",
  "text": "Securing that—\n(a) publicity is given to specified matters,\n(b) regulators maintain registers of specified matters (but excepting information which under the regulations is, or is determined to be, commercially confidential and subject to any other exceptions specified in the regulations) which are open to public inspection,\n(c) copies of entries in such registers, or of specified documents, may be obtained by members of the public.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 in force at 20.5.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/256, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2014/3",
      "affecting_title": "Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/3/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:54.686695+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."
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