{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-mergers-modification-of-enactments-regulations-2004/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Section 33: Duty to make references in relation to anticipated mergers",
  "text": "(1) Part 3 of the 2002 Act has effect as if, for section 33 (duty to make references in relation to anticipated mergers), there were substituted—\n“References in relation to anticipated water mergers\n33 A reference under section 32(a) of the 1991 Act shall specify—\n(a) the enactment under which it is made; and\n(b) the date on which it is made.”\n(2) No reference shall be made under section 32(a) of the 1991 Act if the period within which the CMA is required by section 34ZA of the 2002 Act to decide whether the duty to make a reference applies has expired without such a decision having been made.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 9(1) renumbered (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 9(2) inserted (18.12.2015) by The Water Mergers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1936), regs. 1, 6(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3202/regulation/9",
    "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."
}