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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-and-water-services-scotland-act-2003/schedule-5/paragraph-4",
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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/5/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Article 4 is to be read as if—\n(a) in paragraph 1—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (a)(iv), for “Article 16(1) and (8)” there were substituted “ the Priority Substances Directive ”,\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (b)(iii), for “paragraphs 2, 4 and 5 of Article 17” there were substituted “ the Groundwater Directive ”,\n(b) in paragraph 8, the reference to “other Community environmental legislation” were a reference to “assimilated law relating to the environment”,\n(c) in paragraph 9, the reference to “the existing Community legislation” were a reference to “other relevant assimilated law”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Environment (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/26), regs. 1, 2(6) (as amended by S.S.I. 2019/175, regs. 1(1)(b), 8(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in sch. 5 para. 4(b) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/374), reg. 1(1), sch. 1 para. 4(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in sch. 5 para. 4(c) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/374), reg. 1(1), sch. 1 para. 4(2)(d)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/3/schedule/5/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}