The Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1999 No. 662 — creates 19 criminal offences.

Made

10 March 1999

In force from

Not determined

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Energy, communications, water and utilities

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 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.

Offences created by this instrument

• SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 1 · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Relationship with other statutory provisions controlling pollution article 10(1) · Status not determined · Mixed — some elements strict, some not
• Enforcement notices article 12(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Regulations as to prevention of pollution article 14(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Regulations as to prevention of pollution article 14(2)(c) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Pollution emergencies article 15(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Consequences of not complying with a works notice article 19(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Supplementary provisions as to powers of entry and inspection article 26(5) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Supplementary provisions as to powers of entry and inspection article 26(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Power to obtain information article 28(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Penalties for false information article 29 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Abandoned mines article 35(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Regulation of recreational and navigational use of waterways article 49(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Supplementary provisions as to powers of entry and inspection article 52(5) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Supplementary provisions as to powers of entry and inspection article 52(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Pollution, etc., of water article 7(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
• Pollution, etc., of water article 7(5) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Prevention and making good of defaults under Article 7(1) article 8(5) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Discharge of effluent into waterway or underground stratum article 9(4) · Status not determined · Strict liability

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 1999