Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (REPEALED)

[F1 Applications for water or sewerage services N.I.

17 .F2 — (1) Where the provision of a water or sewerage service from the Department is required in respect of any premises, the owner or occupier may apply to the Department—

(a) for a supply of water from the Department;

(b) to discharge into a sewer or sewage treatment works vested in the Department domestic sewage and surface water;

(c) for the connection of his service pipe, drain or private sewer with an existing main, sewer or sewage treatment works vested in the Department; or

(d) for an existing main or sewer to be extended or augmented and the connection of his service pipe, drain or private sewer with that extended or augmented main or sewer.

(2) An application under paragraph (1) shall be in writing.

(3) The Department may refuse the application or grant the application unconditionally or subject to such terms and conditions (including conditions as to costs and charges) as it thinks fit to impose.

(4) Where a person has applied under paragraph (1) for a water or sewerage service, the Department may enter into an agreement with that person for the provision at the expense of that person of works in connection with that service, and any such agreement may specify the terms and conditions on which the works are to be provided, including conditions as to costs and charges and as to the adoption by the Department of such works.

(5) Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Department under paragraph (3), other than a decision in respect of conditions relating to costs and charges, may appeal to the Appeals Commission within 28 days from the date on which he receives notice of the decision.

(6) Any person who—

(a) obtains a water or, as the case may be, a sewerage service from the Department otherwise than in accordance with this Order; or

(b) contravenes any condition on which an application for such a service is granted;

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(7) The Department may—

(a) close, remove or remake any connection obtained otherwise than in accordance with this Order; and

(b) recover from the person in respect of whose liability the power under sub-paragraph (a) is exercised, the costs reasonably incurred by it in so doing.

(8) Paragraphs (1) to (7) shall apply in relation to the alteration of an existing water or sewerage service as they apply to the provision of a service.

(9) Nothing in this Article applies to the discharge of any trade effluent.]

F1 1993 NI 16

F2 functions transf. by SR 1999/481