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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-northern-ireland-order-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1999/0110804767",
  "legislation_title": "Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-water-northern-ireland-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order repeals and re-enacts with amendments the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The principal amendments—\n(a) modify the provisions relating to discharge consents;\n(b) enable the Department of the Environment to make more extensive provision, by regulations, to prevent pollution;\n(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;\n(d) confer powers on the Department of Agriculture to carry out works in relation to waterways.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1999/0110804767/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:19:47.966480+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."
}