1. Introductory Text

  2. 1.Citation and interpretation

  3. 2.Appointed days

  4. 3.Transitional, transitory and saving provisions

  5. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      1. PART I PROVISIONS COMING INTO OPERATION ON THE DATE OF THIS ORDER

      2. PART II PROVISIONS COMING INTO OPERATION ON THE 1ST APRIL 2007

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      TRANSITIONAL, TRANSITORY AND SAVING PROVISIONS

      1. PART I APPLICATIONS FOR WATER OR SEWERAGE SERVICES

        1. Water supply

          1. 1.(1) Any application made to the Department under Article 17(1)(a)...

        2. Connection of a service pipe

          1. 2.(1) Any application made to the Department under Article 17(1)(c)...

        3. Water main requisitions

          1. 3.(1) Any application made to the Department under Article 17(1)(d)...

        4. Connection of a drain or private sewer and discharge of domestic sewage or surface water

          1. 4.(1) Any application made to the Department under Article 17(1)(b)...

        5. Sewer requisitions

          1. 5.(1) Any application made to the Department under Article 17(1)(d)...

        6. Agreements for the provision or adoption of works

          1. 6.—Without prejudice to the transfer of rights and liabilities under...

        7. Appeals

          1. 7.(1) Where an appeal made to the Appeals Commission in...

        8. Interpretation

          1. 8.(1) In paragraphs 1 to 5 references to any application...

      2. PART II CONTINUITY OF SERVICES

        1. Non-domestic supplies

          1. 9.Where immediately before the transfer date the Department is providing...

        2. Domestic supplies and sewerage services

          1. 10.Nothing in this Order shall give rise to any contractual...

        3. Charges

          1. 11.The power of a water or a sewerage undertaker to...

        4. Adoption of works, sewers, pipes or drains

          1. 12.Any entitlement which a person has under Article 12(5) of...

      3. PART III TRADE EFFLUENT

        1. Existing discharges

          1. 13.(1) No discharge of trade effluent from any trade premises...

        2. New discharges

          1. 14.(1) Any consent which is effective under Article 22 of...

        3. Applications for consent to a new discharge

          1. 15.(1) Any application made to the Department in accordance with...

        4. Agreements as respects trade premises

          1. 16.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any agreement made or having...

        5. Information on appeal and interpretation

          1. 17.(1) On an appeal to which this Part applies in...

      4. PART IV CHARGES FOR SERVICES

        1. Amounts due to the Department

          1. 18.(1) The repeal of the 1973 Order shall not affect...

        2. Trade effluent charges

          1. 19.References (however expressed) in any deemed consent (as defined in...

        3. Liability of owners and occupiers

          1. 20.Where, in the case of any premises—

        4. Notice of requirements to connect or disconnect a meter

          1. 21.(1) Where before the transfer date the Department was proposing...

        5. Disconnection for non-payment

          1. 22.(1) Where— (a) before the transfer date premises are disconnected...

      5. PART V WORKS AND LAND

        1. Notice of intention to execute works

          1. 23.(1) Without prejudice to paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 4 to...

        2. Rights of entry

          1. 24.(1) Without prejudice to sub-paragraph (2), where before the transfer...

        3. Complaints

          1. 25.Article 243 of the 2006 Order shall apply in relation...

        4. Power to require occupier to permit works to be executed by owner

          1. 26.Any complaint made under Article 16 of the 1973 Order...

        5. Compulsory acquisition of land

          1. 27.(1) Any land which has been compulsorily acquired under Article...

      6. PART VI WATER (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1999

        1. Pollution of water: offences

          1. 28.Until the date on which the first regulations made under...

        2. Discharge consents

          1. 29.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a consent given under Article...

          2. 30.The amendments made by Article 290(6) and (7) of the...

      7. PART VII MISCELLANEOUS

        1. Prosecutions and other proceedings

          1. 31.(1) Without prejudice to— (a) the generality of section 28(2)...

        2. Saving for criminal liability of the Department

          1. 32.Nothing in this Order or in a scheme made under...

        3. Application of enactments

          1. 33.Any provision contained in this Order as to the application...

        4. Rights to use pipes etc.

          1. 34.Without prejudice to section 28 of the Interpretation Act (Northern...

        5. Supply by means of a separate service pipe

          1. 35.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any notice served on the...

        6. Production of plans and furnishing of information

          1. 36.Any request made by the Department under Article 47(1) of...

        7. Civil liability for escapes of water

          1. 37.Notwithstanding any repeal by the 2006 Order, Article57A of the...

        8. Protection for telegraph and telephone lines

          1. 38.Notwithstanding its repeal by the 2006 Order, Article 58 of...

        9. Private water supplies

          1. 39.(1) Any notice served by DOE under Article 3E(1) of...

        10. Proper maintenance of water and sewerage services

          1. 40.(1) Any notice served by the Department under regulation 2(1)...

        11. Adequacy of water and sewerage services to occupied premises

          1. 41.On the transfer date notices served under regulation 3 of...

        12. Modification of drainage facilities

          1. 42.(1) Without prejudice to the generality of Part V of...

        13. Liability of certain owners and occupiers in relation to fittings

          1. 43.(1) Without prejudice to section 28 of the Interpretation Act...

        14. Saving for agreements

          1. 44.Without prejudice to the generality of section 28(2) or 29(3)...

      8. PART VIII INTERPRETATION

        1. 45.In this Schedule— (a) “the 1973 Regulations” means the Water...

  7. Explanatory Note