{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/section-103",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/section-103.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/45",
  "legislation_title": "Water (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/103",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "103",
  "heading": "Notices to be in writing.",
  "text": "All notices, consents, approvals, demands and other documents authorised or required by or under this Act or any local enactment incorporating any provisions of Schedule 4 to be given, made or issued by the Secretary of State or any local authority, or Scottish Water, and all notices and applications authorised or required by or under this Act or any such local enactment to be given or made to the Secretary of State or to, or to any officer of, any local authority, or Scottish Water, shall , subject to section 23(4) of and paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 3 to this Act, be in writing.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 103 substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 119(49)(a)(c); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 103 substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71(1), Sch. 6 para. 60 (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 103 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 119(49)(b), Sch. 14; S.I. 1994/323, art. 4(1)(c)(d), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 103 inserted (1.1.1993) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(1), Sch. 8, Pt. IV, para. 108(5); S.I. 1992/2990, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/45/section/103",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:16.376021+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."
}