The Water and Sewerage Services (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (REPEALED)

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1993 No. 3165 — creates 9 criminal offences.

Made

16 December 1993

In force from

17 February 1994

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries

Made under

Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order confers new powers on the Department of the Environment with respect to the quality of water, introduces an offence of contaminating, wasting or misusing water, empowers that Department to make provision to regulate against such contamination, waste and misuse and to give effect to any international obligations, and makes miscellaneous amendments to the law relating to water and sewerage services. The principal amendments are to the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 and to other statutory provisions and concern— a the exclusion of a right of appeal in respect to costs or charges (Article 5); b the appointment of assessors to assist members of the Water Appeals Commission (Article 6); c a re-statement of the procedure for applications for water or sewerage services (Article 7); d an extension of the time within which summary proceedings for offences may be commenced (Article 12); e the registration of certain agreements, notices or other matters in the Statutory Charges Register (Article 15); f the prevention of pollution (Article 16); g the increase in the penalty for polluting water (Article 17).

Offences created by this instrument

• Applications for water or sewerage services article 17(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Information relating to new discharges of trade effluents article 26A(2) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Regulations for preserving water quality article 3B(2)(e) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Supplementary provisions article 3F(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• If any person who is the owner or occupier of any premises to which a supply of water is provided by the Department… article 40A(1) · Status not determined · Mixed — some elements strict, some not
• Any person who uses any water supplied to any premises by the Department for a purpose other than one for which it is… article 40A(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Information article 8(2) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Information article 8(2)(b) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Contamination, waste and misuse of water article 9(1) · Status not determined · Mixed — some elements strict, some not

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

Check the source

• This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
• Other instruments from 1993