{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2015/regulation-9.json",
  "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": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "New regulations 17A, 17B and 17C",
  "text": "After regulation 17, insert—\n“Section 73A: Time-limits for consideration of undertakings\n17A. Section 73A (time-limits for consideration of undertakings) has effect as if—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) in the words before paragraph (a), for “section 73(2)” there were substituted “section 33D(1) of the 1991 Act”; and\n(ii) paragraph (b) and the “or” preceding it were omitted; and\n(b) in subsection (2), for “section 73(2)” there were substituted “section 33D(1) of the 1991 Act”.\nSection 74: Effect of undertakings under section 73\n17B. Section 74 (effect of undertakings under section 73) has effect as if—\n(a) in the heading, for “section 73” there were substituted “section 33D of the 1991 Act”;\n(b) in subsection (1)—\n(i) in the words before paragraph (a), for “relevant authority shall not make a reference under section 22, 33 or 45” there were substituted “CMA shall not make a reference under section 32(a) or (b) of the 1991 Act”; and\n(ii) in paragraph (a), for “section 73” there were substituted “section 33D of the 1991 Act”; and\n(c) subsection (5) were omitted.\nSection 75: Order making power where undertakings under section 73 not fulfilled etc\n17C. Section 75 (order making power where undertakings under section 73 not fulfilled etc) has effect as if—\n(a) in the heading, for “section 73” there were substituted “section 33D of the 1991 Act”;\n(b) in subsection (1)(a), for “section 73” there were substituted “section 33D of the 1991 Act”;\n(c) in subsection (2), for “section 73(2)” there were substituted “section 33D(2) of the 1991 Act”; and\n(d) for subsection (3) there were substituted—\n“(3) Subsections (4) and (5) of section 33D of the 1991 Act shall apply for the purposes of subsection (2) above as they apply for the purposes of subsection (1) of that section.”.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 73A was inserted by paragraph 7 of Schedule 8 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 74 was amended by paragraph 114 of Schedule 5 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 75 was amended by paragraph 115 of Schedule 5 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1936/regulation/9",
    "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."
}