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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-amendment-regulations-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/706",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Amendment) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-amendment-regulations-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Water, England And Wales\nMade 14th June 2018\nLaid before Parliament 18th June 2018\nComing into force 11th July 2018\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the environment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7),"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
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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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