{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-licence-and-sewerage-licence-modification-of-standard-conditions-order-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/449",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply Licence and Sewerage Licence (Modification of Standard Conditions) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-licence-and-sewerage-licence-modification-of-standard-conditions-order-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56) (“the 1991 Act”), as amended by the Water Act 2014 (c. 21) (“the 2014 Act”), allows the Secretary of State to determine standard conditions in water supply and sewerage licences. Standard licence conditions can subsequently be modified in certain circumstances. Section 17J of the 1991 Act enables the Water Services Regulation Authority (“Ofwat”) to modify standard licence conditions if certain conditions are fulfilled.\nArticle 2 of this Order specifies the relevant percentages in relation to the condition that specified percentages of licence holders (by number or by market share) do not object to such modifications. Modifications to standard licence conditions cannot proceed without a reference to the Competition and Markets Authority if objections are made by 20 per cent or more of relevant licence holders measured by number or by market share.\nArticle 3 of this Order specifies how each relevant licence holder will be weighted for the purposes of measuring market share.\nImpact assessments of the effect that the 2014 Act will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector are available from the Water Services Team, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR and are published alongside the 2014 Act at www.legislation.gov.uk. No separate impact assessment has been produced for this instrument.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/449/note",
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  "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."
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