{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1936",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Competition\nWater Industry, England And Wales\nMade 24th November 2015\nLaid before Parliament 26th November 2015\nComing into force 18th December 2015\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by—\n(a) section 219(1) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 4ZA to, the Water Industry Act 1991; and\n(b) sections 121(1), (2)(c) and (3)(d) and 124(2) of the Enterprise Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the definition of “prescribed” in section 219(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1991 c.56. Schedule 4ZA was inserted by Schedule 6 to the Enterprise Act 2002 (c.40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2002 c. 40. Section 121 was amended by paragraph 156 of Schedule 5 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c.24); there are other amendments but none are relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1936/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:06.897895+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."
}