{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-37A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-37A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/57",
  "legislation_title": "Water Resources Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991",
  "path": "section/37A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37A",
  "heading": "Power to dispense with publication requirements",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for—\n(a) enabling the appropriate agency; or\n(b) him, in the case of applications referred to him in accordance with section 41 below,\nto direct or determine that the requirements of subsections (1) and (2) of section 37 above may in any case (except where the appropriate agency is the applicant) be dispensed with, if in that case it appears to the appropriate agency (or, as the case may be, the Secretary of State) to be appropriate to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 37A inserted (1.4.2006) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 14(2), 105(3); S.I. 2006/984, art. 2(i) (with Sch. paras. 1, 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in ss. 33A-45 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 270(g) (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/37A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:46.190861+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."
}