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Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999

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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 No. 662

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order repeals and re-enacts with amendments the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The principal amendments—

(a)modify the provisions relating to discharge consents;

(b)enable the Department of the Environment to make more extensive provision, by regulations, to prevent pollution;

(c)confer more extensive powers on the Department of the Environment to carry out anti-pollution works and enable the Department to issue notices requiring persons to carry out anti-pollution works;

(d)confer powers on the Department of Agriculture to carry out works in relation to waterways.

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