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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-abstraction-and-impounding-amendment-regulations-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/165",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) (Amendment) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-abstraction-and-impounding-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect SI 2006/641 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nwater RESOURCES, england and wales\nMade 26th January 2008\nLaid before Parliament 31st January 2008\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 31st January 2008\nComing into force 29th February 2008\nThe Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 37(4) and (6) (including as applied by section 51(3)), 51(1C)(b) and (1D), 189, 219(2)(d), (e) and (f) and 221(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991 and now vested in them:",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In relation to Wales, the powers to make regulations under the provisions of the Water Resources Act 1991 have been transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) (the entry relating to the Water Resources Act 1991 in Schedule 1 to that Order has been amended by section 100(4) of the Water Act 2003 (c.37) (“the WA”) and, by virtue of section 100(6) of the WA, references to the Water Resources Act 1991 in that Schedule are treated as references to that Act as amended by the WA). Those powers are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.38)."
    }
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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."
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