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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-pensions-and-compensation-transfer-of-liabilities-regulations-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-pensions-and-compensation-transfer-of-liabilities-regulations-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1939",
  "legislation_title": "The Water (Pensions and Compensation) (Transfer of Liabilities) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-pensions-and-compensation-transfer-of-liabilities-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 19th October 1989\nLaid before Parliament 27th October 1989\nComing into force 17th November 1989\nWhereas on the 30th August 1989 the Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Wales made the Water Act 1973 (Savings) Direction 1989;\nAnd whereas liabilities saved by virtue of that Direction were on 1st September 1989 transferred in accordance with schemes under Schedule 2 to the Water Act 1989 (“the Act”) to companies nominated to succeed the water authorities;\nAnd whereas those companies are wholly owned by the Crown;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State for Wales, in relation to liabilities of the successor company nominated by him, and the Secretary of State for the Environment, in relation to liabilities of the other successor companies, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 185(2)(e) of, and paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 26 to, the Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Made under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 26 to the Water Act 1989. Copies may be obtained (free of charge) from the Department of the Environment, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 15."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1939/introduction",
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  "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."
}