{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1623",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Water Resources, England And Wales\nMade 24th August 2015\nLaid before Parliament 24th August 2015\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 24th August 2015\nComing into force 14th September 2015\nThe Secretary of State, acting in relation to river basin districts that are wholly in England, and the Welsh Ministers, acting in relation to river basin districts that are wholly in Wales, and the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers acting jointly in relation to river basin districts that are partly in England and partly in Wales, make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of that section in relation to matters relating to the environment, and the Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of that section in relation to water resources.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51), section 27(1)(a), and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7), Part 1 of the Schedule."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/2901, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1623/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."
}