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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-river-basin-management-planning-further-provision-scotland-regulations-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2013/323",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (River Basin Management Planning: Further Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-river-basin-management-planning-further-provision-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nWater\nMade 12th November 2013\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 14th November 2013\nComing into force 22nd December 2013\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(5), 7, 8(5), 9(4) to (6), 10(2)(b), 19(1), 23(1) and 36(2) and (3) of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Act”) and section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 23(3) of the Act, the Scottish Ministers have consulted such persons as they think fit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "2003 asp 3; section 9 was amended by section 54(4) of the Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 7)."
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      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) (“the 1998 Act”), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3) (which was amended by section 27(4) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) (“the 2006 Act”)). Section 2(2) was also amended by section 27(1)(a) of the 2006 Act and by the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), Schedule, Part 1. The functions conferred upon the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2), so far as they are exercisable within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the 1998 Act."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/323/introduction",
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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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