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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-2005/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/54",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Services Charges (Billing and Collection) (Scotland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Duty to demand and recover charges",
  "text": "Every local authority shall, as respects water supply and sewerage services provided in the relevant year by Scottish Water in the exercise of its core functions 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/ssi/2005/54/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:27:48.404924+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."
}