{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-17A.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/17A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": "Section 73A: Time-limits for consideration of undertakings",
  "text": "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) or (3B)” there were substituted “section 33D(1) of the 1991 Act”; and\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) for “the purposes of section 73(2) or (3B)” there were substituted “those purposes”; and\n(ii) in paragraph (a) for “section 73(2) or (3B)” there were substituted “section 33D(1) of the 1991 Act”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 17A-17C inserted (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17A(a)(i) inserted (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), 11(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 17A(a)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/93), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 12(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 17A(b) 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), 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17A(b)(ii) inserted (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), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3202/regulation/17A",
    "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."
}