{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-scotland-act-2002-commencement-and-savings-order-2002/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-scotland-act-2002-commencement-and-savings-order-2002/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2002/118",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (Commencement and Savings) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-scotland-act-2002-commencement-and-savings-order-2002",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (Commencement and Savings) Order 2002.\n(2) In this Order–\n“the 1994 Act” means the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“the Act” means the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002; and\n“the authorities” means the new water and sewerage authorities.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 39; section 88 was amended by paragraph 12(2) of schedule 4 to the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000 asp 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/118/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:42:23.138414+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."
}