{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-17B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-17B.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/17B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17B",
  "heading": "Section 74: Effect of undertakings under section 73",
  "text": "Section 74 (effect of undertakings under section 73) has effect as if—\n(a) in the heading, for “section 73” there were substituted “section 33D of the 1991 Act”;\n(b) in subsection (1)—\n(i) in the words before paragraph (a), for “relevant authority shall not make a reference under section 22, 33 or 45” there were substituted “CMA shall not make a reference under section 32(a) or (b) of the 1991 Act”; and\n(ii) in paragraph (a), for “section 73(2)” there were substituted “section 33D of the 1991 Act”; ...\n(ba) subsection (1A) were omitted;\n(bb) in subsection (2), for “Subsections (1) and (1A) do not” there were substituted “Subsection (1) does not”; and\n(c) subsection (5) were omitted.",
  "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. 17B(b)(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), 5(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17B(b)(ii) 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), 5(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17B(b) omitted (23.8.2024) by virtue of The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (Water Mergers) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/840), regs. 1(1), 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 17B(ba)(bb) 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), 5(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3202/regulation/17B",
    "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."
}