{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-17.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/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Section 72: Initial enforcement orders: completed or anticipated mergers",
  "text": "Section 72 (initial enforcement orders: completed or anticipated mergers) has effect as if—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) in paragraph (a), for “section 22, 33, 68B or 68C” there were substituted “section 32(a) or (b) of the 1991 Act”; and\n(ii) in paragraph (b), after “two or more” (in both places where it occurs), there were inserted “water”;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) in subsection (6)—\n(i) in the words before paragraph (a), for “section 22, 33, 68B or 68C” there were substituted “section 32(a) or (b) of the 1991 Act”; ...\n(ia) in paragraph (b), for “section 73” there were substituted “section 33D of the 1991 Act”; and\n(ii) in paragraph (d), for “section 22, 33, 68B or 68C” there were substituted “section 32(a) or (b) of the 1991 Act”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 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(14)(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 17(a) 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(14)(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 17(a)(i) substituted (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(a)(i) substituted (6.12.2023) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Merger Fees and Determination of Turnover) (Amendment) and Energy Network Mergers (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1185), arts. 1(2), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 17(b)(c) omitted (1.4.2014) by virtue of 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(14)(c) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 17(d)(i) substituted (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 8(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(d)(i) substituted (23.8.2024) by The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (Water Mergers) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/840), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(d)(i) substituted (6.12.2023) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Merger Fees and Determination of Turnover) (Amendment) and Energy Network Mergers (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1185), arts. 1(2), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17(d)(i) omitted (18.12.2015) by virtue of The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 8(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 17(d)(ia) inserted (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 8(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 17(d)(ii) substituted (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 8(b)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(d)(ii) substituted (6.12.2023) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Merger Fees and Determination of Turnover) (Amendment) and Energy Network Mergers (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1185), arts. 1(2), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17 heading 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(14)(a) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3202/regulation/17",
    "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."
}