{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/section-32.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/45",
  "legislation_title": "Water (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Power of water undertakers to supply water to water authorities.",
  "text": "(1) Any person supplying water, whether under statutory powers or not, may—\n(a) contract to supply water to Scottish Water; or\n(b) sell or lease to Scottish Water all or any of his waterworks and all his rights, powers and privileges attaching thereto but subject to all liabilities attaching thereto.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 32(1) substituted (1.4.2002) by Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3), s. 71(1), Sch. 6 para. 25 (with s. 67); S.S.I. 2002/118, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 32(1)(b) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1)(2), Sch. 13 para. 119(21)(a), Sch. 14; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)(d), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 32(2) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1)(2), Sch. 13 para. 119(21)(b), Sch. 14; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)(d), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/45/section/32",
    "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."
}