{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-20.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/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Section 79: Sections 77 and 78: further interpretation provisions",
  "text": "Section 79 (sections 77 and 78: further interpretation provisions) has effect as if—\n(a) in subsections (1) and (2), for “section 22 , 33, 68B or 68C” there were substituted “section 32(a) or (b) of the 1991 Act”; ...\n(b) for paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of subsection (1), there were substituted—\n“(c) the report of the CMA under section 38 contains the decision that there is not a prejudicial outcome;\n(d) the report of the CMA under section 38 contains the decision that there is a prejudicial outcome and the CMA has decided under section 41(2) neither to accept an undertaking under section 82 nor to make an order under section 84; or\n(e) the report of the CMA under section 38 contains the decision that there is a prejudicial outcome and the CMA has decided under section 41(2) to accept an undertaking under section 82 or to make an order under section 84.”; and\n(c) subsection (5A) were omitted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(a) 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), 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 20(a) 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), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 20(b) 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), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 20(c) 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), 7(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3202/regulation/20",
    "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."
}