{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-66DC",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-66DC.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/56",
  "legislation_title": "Water Industry Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991",
  "path": "section/66DC",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "66DC",
  "heading": "Codes under section 66DA: minor or urgent revisions",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if the Authority proposes to issue a revised code and, in the view of the Authority, the revision or each of the revisions proposed to be made is—\n(a) a revision for which consultation is unnecessary, or\n(b) a revision that it is necessary or desirable to make without delay.\n(2) Section 66DB does not apply to the proposed revised code.\n(3) Once the Authority has issued the revised code, it must give notice as soon as reasonably practicable of—\n(a) the issuing of the revised code, and\n(b) as regards each revision contained in it, whether in the view of the Authority the revision falls within paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1).\n(4) Notice under subsection (3) is to be given to such persons as the Authority considers appropriate.\n(5) Unless the Authority gives notice that a revision in a revised code is in the view of the Authority a revision falling within subsection (1)(a), the revision ceases to have effect at the end of the period of six months beginning with the day after that on which the revised code is issued.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3 Ch. 2A inserted (1.4.2004 for specified provisions and purposes and 1.12.2005 otherwise) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 56, 105(3), Sch. 4 para. 3; S.I. 2004/641, art. 3(l), Sch. 1 (with art. 6, Sch. 3); S.I. 2005/2714, art. 3(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 66DA-66DC inserted (1.9.2015 for the insertion of s. 66DB in part, 1.9.2015 for the insertion of s. 66DB(3), 1.4.2016 for the insertion of s. 66DB(1)(b) so far as not already in force, 30.3.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 2 para. 4; S.I. 2015/773, art. 3(c) (with art. 5); S.I. 2015/1469, art. 3(d)(i); S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(j)(i) (with Sch. 2) (as amended (22.3.2017) by S.I. 2017/462, art. 16); S.I. 2017/462, art. 2(c) (with art. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/66DC",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-04T03:48:29.824737+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."
}