{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-13.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/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Section 38: Investigations and reports on references",
  "text": "Section 38 (investigations and reports on references) has effect as if—\n(a) in subsection (1), for “section 22 or 33” there were substituted “section 32 of the 1991 Act”; and\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) in paragraph (b), the word “and” were omitted; and\n(ii) after paragraph (c), there were inserted—\n“; and\n(d) if the merger reference is under section 32(b) of the 1991 Act and the CMA is satisfied that the reference was not made within the period of four months mentioned in section 24, a statement of that fact.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 13 substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 22(10) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3202/regulation/13",
    "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."
}