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The Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006
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- art. 23(6) inserted by 2024 c. 13 Sch. 30 para. 41(4)
- art. 27(11) inserted by 2024 c. 13 Sch. 30 para. 42(4)
- art. 29(11) inserted by 2024 c. 13 Sch. 29 para. 4
- art. 265(5)(u) inserted by 2024 c. 13 Sch. 30 para. 43(b)
- art. 293(10A) inserted by 2015 c. 8 (N.I.) Sch. 3 para. 2(b)
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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.
(2) Except as provided by paragraph (3), this Order shall come into operation on such day or days as the Department may by order appoint.
(3) The following provisions come into operation on 1st January 2007—
(a)this Part;
(b)Article 201(11) to (13);
(c)Part X (together with Schedule 11);
(d)Articles 300, 302, 306 and 307; and
(e)so much of any other provision of this Order as confers power on a Northern Ireland department to make regulations or orders or makes provision with respect to the exercise of any such power.
(4) An order under paragraph (2) providing for any provision contained in Chapter IV of Part IV to come into operation shall not be made unless a draft of the order has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Assembly.
(5) An order under paragraph (2) may contain such transitional or transitory provisions and such savings as appear to the Department to be necessary or expedient.
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P1Art. 1(2) power partly exercised: different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.R. 2007/194, art. 2, Sch. 1 (subject to art. 3, Sch. 2); different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.R. 2007/282, art. 2, Sch.; 16.6.2010 appointed for specified provisions by S.R. 2010/216, art. 2, Sch.
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