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				</ukm:Metadata><Primary><Schedules RestrictStartDate="2024-01-01"><Title>SCHEDULES</Title><Schedule DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5" NumberOfProvisions="54" id="schedule-5" RestrictExtent="E+W" Status="Prospective" Match="false"><Number>SCHEDULE 5</Number><TitleBlock><Title>Extension of licensing provisions in relation to Wales</Title></TitleBlock><ScheduleBody><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39" Status="Prospective" Match="false" id="schedule-5-paragraph-39"><Pnumber PuncAfter="">39</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/1" id="schedule-5-paragraph-39-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Section 95ZA (standards of performance in connection with provision of sewerage services: sewerage licensees) (inserted by section 30) is amended as follows.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/2" id="schedule-5-paragraph-39-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>In the following places—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/2/a" id="schedule-5-paragraph-39-2-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the opening words of subsection (1),</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/2/b" id="schedule-5-paragraph-39-2-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>subsection (1)(b)(i), and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/2/c" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/21/schedule/5/paragraph/39/2/c" id="schedule-5-paragraph-39-2-c"><Pnumber>c</Pnumber><P3para><Text>subsection (2),</Text></P3para></P3><Text>for  “Secretary of State” there is substituted <InlineAmendment>“
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