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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/362",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Services Charges (Billing and Collection) (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Duty to demand and recover charges",
  "text": "Every local authority shall, as respects services provided in the relevant year by a water authority to dwellings within the area of the local authority, demand and recover the charges (other than charges in respect of a supply of water taken by meter) payable for those services under a charges scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/362/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:20.234097+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."
}