Water Act 2014 Explanatory Notes

Commencement Dates

386.The general and final provisions and most of the commencement provisions come into force on Royal Assent. This also includes Section 69 (so far as relating to the power to disclose information under section 69(1)(a)) within the Flood Reinsurance Scheme. Sections 3, 13, 15, 21, 22, 25(3), 26 to 28, 33, 34(1) and (2), 35, 36, 57, 58, 60 to 63, 85 to 89 and paragraphs 8 and 107 of Schedule 7 and Schedules 8 and 10 come into force two months after Royal Assent, so far as is specified in section 94(2). The remaining provisions come into force by commencement order made by the Secretary of State or by the Welsh Ministers.

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