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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3104",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Resources Act 1991 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Water Resources, England And Wales\nMade 25th November 2009\nLaid before Parliament 1st December 2009\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 1st December 2009\nComing into force 22nd December 2009\nThe Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the environment.\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to water resources.\nThe Secretary of State in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales, make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/2901. The functions conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by means of that Order 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.32)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3104/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."
}