{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-protection-zone-river-dee-catchment-procedural-and-other-provisions-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/916",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Protection Zone (River Dee Catchment) (Procedural and Other Provisions) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-protection-zone-river-dee-catchment-procedural-and-other-provisions-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER RESOURCES, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 19th March 1999\nLaid before Parliament 24th March 1999\nComing into force 21st June 1999\nWhereas the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and the Secretary of State for Wales have designated an area under section 93 of the Water Resources Act 1991 as a water protection zone to be known as “the River Dee Water Protection Zone”.\nNow therefore, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 96(1) and (3) and 219(2) of the Water Resources Act 1991 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": "1991 c. 57 as amended by section 120 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/916/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."
}