{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-10ZA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-10ZA.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3202",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Mergers (Modification of Enactments) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/10ZA",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10ZA",
  "heading": "Section 34ZA: Time-limits for decisions about references",
  "text": "Section 34ZA (time-limits for decisions about references) has effect as if—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) in the words before paragraph (a), for “section 22(1) or 33(1)” there were substituted “section 32(a) or (b) of the 1991 Act”; and\n(ii) in paragraph (a), for “(taking account of the power under section 22(2) or (as the case may be) 33(2) and the operation of section 22(3) or (as the case may be) 33(3))” there were substituted “(taking account of the operation of sections 33(1) and 33A(4) of the 1991 Act and the power under section 33A(1) or (as the case may be) (2) of the 1991 Act)”;\n(aa) subsection (1A) were omitted;\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) in the words before paragraph (a), for “section 22(1) or 33(1)” there were substituted “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”;\n(c) in subsection (3), in the definition of “the initial period”—\n(i) paragraph (a) were omitted; and\n(ii) in paragraph (b), “in any other case,” were omitted and the remaining text ceased to be paragraph (b); and\n(d) subsection 4 were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 10ZA-10ZC inserted (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10ZA(a)(i) substituted (1.1.2025) by The Water Mergers (Modification of Enactments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1234), regs. 1(1), 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 10ZA(aa) inserted (1.1.2025) by The Water Mergers (Modification of Enactments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1234), regs. 1(1), 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10ZA(b)(i) substituted (1.1.2025) by The Water Mergers (Modification of Enactments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1234), regs. 1(1), 5(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10ZA(d) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/93), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 12(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3202/regulation/10ZA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:14:14.446363+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."
}