{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-fluoridation-indemnities-england-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-fluoridation-indemnities-england-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/920",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Fluoridation Indemnities) (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-fluoridation-indemnities-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Conduct of cases",
  "text": "Where the Secretary of State for Health is, or may be, required to make any payment in respect of a claim under this indemnity, he shall have the right to conduct, or take over the conduct of—\n(a) the defence to any legal proceedings taken by a third party against the water undertaker (including the right to participate in any related proceedings); and\n(b) proceedings to recover a payment due from a third party;\nand where he exercises this right the water undertaker shall provide such assistance to him as he may reasonably require.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2018/378",
      "affecting_title": "The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/920/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:04.075749+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."
}