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The Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, Section 166 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 03 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
Valid from 01/04/2007
166.—(1) Any person who causes a drain or sewer to communicate with a public sewer—
(a)in contravention of any of the provisions of Article 163 or 165; or
(b)before the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (5) of Article 163,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(2) Whether proceedings have or have not been taken by a sewerage undertaker in respect of an offence under this Article, such an undertaker may—
(a)close any communication made in contravention of any of the provisions of Article 163 or 165; and
(b)recover summarily as a civil debt from the offender any expenses reasonably incurred by the undertaker in so doing.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 166 wholly in operation at 1.4.2007, see art. 1(2) and S.R. 2007/194, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt. II (subject to art. 3, Sch. 2)
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