{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-14.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/23",
  "legislation_title": "Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clean-neighbourhoods-and-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Offence of dropping litter in lake, pond or watercourse",
  "text": "(1) Article 3 of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (NI 10) (offence of dropping litter) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) After paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) A person may only give consent under paragraph (2) in relation to the depositing of litter in a lake, pond or watercourse if he is the owner, occupier or other person having control of—\n(a) all the land adjoining the lake, pond or watercourse; and\n(b) all the land through or into which water in that lake, pond or watercourse directly or indirectly discharges, otherwise than by means of a public sewer.\n(2B) In paragraph (2A)—\n“watercourse” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of the Drainage (Northern Ireland) Order 1973; and\n“public sewer” has the same meaning as in Article 2(2) of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 in operation at 1.4.2012 by S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/23/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:43.734706+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}