{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/33",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Services Charges (Billing and Collection) (Scotland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Duty to demand and recover charges",
  "text": "Every local authority shall, as respects services provided in a 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": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2002/166",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (Consequential and Savings Provisions) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/33/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:43:20.937813+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."
}