{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/45",
  "legislation_title": "Water (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Power of authority to provide public wells.",
  "text": "(1) A local authority or Scottish Water may construct and maintain public pumps, wells, stand-pipes or other works for supplying water for the use of the inhabitants within their area or, as the case may be, its limits of supply.\n(2) A local authority may erect and maintain or authorise to be erected and maintained in any road or public place within their area any drinking fountain or trough; but where the Secretary of State is the roads authoritythere shall be no such erection by the the local authority without his consent which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 119(15)(a); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(1) substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71(1), Sch. 6 para. 20(a) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 25(1) substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71(1), Sch. 6 para. 20(b) (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(2) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 119(15)(b)(i); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 81(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(2) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1)(2), Sch. 13 para. 119(15)(b)(ii), Sch. 14; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)(d), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(2) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 119(15)(b)(iii); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 81(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(2) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 119(15)(b)(iv); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in s. 25(2) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 119(15)(b)(v); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/45/section/25",
    "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."
}