{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-scotland-act-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "asp/2013/5",
  "legislation_title": "Water Resources (Scotland) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-scotland-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Scottish Water may—\n(a) enter any premises for the purposes of—\n(i) assessing whether there is a serious deficiency, or threat of a serious deficiency, of water supplies in an area,\n(ii) carrying out its functions under a water shortage order,\n(iii) carrying out its functions under Part 7,\n(iv) determining whether a water saving measure, or restriction or prohibition on abstraction, imposed by a water shortage order is being complied with,\n(b) take any steps at the premises that are reasonably required for those purposes.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) authorises entry only if the occupier of the premises has been given at least 24 hours' notice of the intended entry for those purposes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 10.6.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/163, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2013/5/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:31.281987+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."
}