# The Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, Article 224: Power to fit stopcocks


(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and without prejudice to Article 220, a water undertaker shall have power, at its own expense, to fit a stopcock to any service pipe by which a supply of water is or is to be provided to any premises by the undertaker, whether that pipe belongs to the undertaker or to any other person.
(2) A stopcock fitted in private premises by a water undertaker to any service pipe shall be situated as near as practicable to any street from which that pipe enters those premises.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110800494/article/224 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-224
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