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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-charges-vulnerable-groups-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/519",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-charges-vulnerable-groups-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Water Industry (Charges) (Vulnerable Groups) Regulations 1999 (“the 1999 Regulations”), which require water and sewerage undertakers' charges schemes to reflect provision for certain groups of people on low incomes who receive child benefit for three or more children or who need significantly more water because of a medical condition, and state the nature of the assistance to be provided to those groups.\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 2(2) of the 1999 Regulations so as to provide assistance for households where extra water is needed for a dependent child suffering from a medical condition, and makes a minor amendment to regulation 3 of those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/519/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:00.135064+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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