{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1234",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Mergers (Modification of Enactments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) The insertion of new regulation 30ZB into the Water Mergers (Modification of Enactments) Regulations 2004 effected by regulation 10 has no effect in relation to any act or omission of a kind described within section 110(1A) of the Enterprise Act 2002, where such an act or omission occurred—\n(a) before 1st January 2025; or\n(b) on or after 1st January 2025, but the act or omission occurred in relation to—\n(i) a notice under section 109 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (attendance of witnesses and production of documents etc) given before that date; or\n(ii) a non-compulsory information request made before that date.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), “non-compulsory information request” means a written request—\n(a) made by the CMA;\n(b) addressed to a specific person to provide information relating to the CMA’s functions under Part 3 of the Enterprise Act 2002 or section 32 of the Water Industry Act 1991 (duty to refer merger of water or sewerage undertaking);\n(c) where that request does not amount to a requirement to provide information imposed under Part 3 of the Enterprise Act 2002.\n(3) References in this regulation to provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002 are references to those provisions as applied by virtue of paragraph 1 of Schedule 4ZA to the Water Industry Act 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 109 was amended by section 29 of, and paragraph 143 of Schedule 5 to, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), paragraph 27 of Schedule 16 to the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52), section 142 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 and S.I. 2014/892. There is another amendment to section 109 which is not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 219(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991 for the definition of “the CMA”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 32 was substituted by section 70 of the Enterprise Act 2002 and amended by section 14 of the Water Act 2014 (c. 21) and S.I. 2014/892."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1234/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:23:34.336466+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."
}