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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-132",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110800494",
  "legislation_title": "The Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/132",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "132",
  "heading": "Consultation",
  "text": "(1) Before taking any step mentioned in paragraph (2), DHSSPS shall—\n(a) consult and ascertain opinion in accordance with regulations made by DHSSPS;\n(b) comply with the requirements set out in regulations made by DHSSPS.\n(2) The steps are—\n(a) requesting a water undertaker to enter into arrangements under Article 126(1);\n(b) requesting a water undertaker to vary any such arrangements in, or except in, prescribed circumstances or cases;\n(c) laying before the Assembly an order under Article 129(6) terminating any such arrangements;\n(d) maintaining any such arrangements in prescribed circumstances.\n(3) Regulations—\n(a) under sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) shall include provision about the process which DHSSPS is to follow for the purposes of that sub-paragraph;\n(b) under sub-paragraph (b) of that paragraph shall include provision about the requirements which must be satisfied (with respect to the outcome of that process or otherwise) before a step mentioned in paragraph (2) may be taken.\n(4) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to a proposal by DHSSPS to take the step mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) if DHSSPS so directs by an instrument in writing (and such a direction may apply either generally or in relation to a particular proposal).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110800494/article/132",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:19:59.133718+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."
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