{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Omitted provisions",
  "text": "(1) Part 3 of the 2002 Act has effect as if the following provisions were omitted—\n(a) section 28 (turnover test);\n(aa) sections 34ZD to 34ZF (fast track reference requests);\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ba) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) Chapter 2, section 85 and Schedule 7 (public interest cases);\n(d) sections 59 to 66 (other special cases);\n(da) sections 68A to 68F and Schedule 5A (mergers of energy network enterprises in Great Britain);\n(e) section 73 (undertakings in lieu of references under section 22 or 33);\n(f) sections 96 to 102 (merger notices); ... and\n(fa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(g) section 123 (power to alter share of supply test).\n(2) Accordingly, any reference in Part 3 of the 2002 Act to those provisions (and any provisions of that Part so far as applying to them) shall be disregarded.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(aa) inserted (1.1.2025) by The Water Mergers (Modification of Enactments) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1234), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(b) 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(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(ba) omitted (18.12.2015) by virtue of The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1)(d) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/93), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 12(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 3(da) 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), 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1)(e) substituted (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(f) 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(2)(c) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(1)(f) inserted (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(fa) omitted (18.12.2015) by virtue of The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 3(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3202/regulation/3",
    "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."
}