{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-northern-ireland-order-1973/article-40A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-northern-ireland-order-1973/article-40A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1973/69",
  "legislation_title": "Drainage (Northern Ireland) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-northern-ireland-order-1973",
  "path": "article/40A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "40A",
  "heading": "Protection for water and sewerage undertakers",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in this Order shall confer power on any person, except with the consent of a water or sewerage undertaker, to do anything which, whether directly or indirectly, so interferes or will so interfere—\n(a) with works or property vested in or under the control of that undertaker; or\n(b) with the use of any such works or property,\nas to affect injuriously those works or that property or the carrying out of the functions of that undertaker.\n(2) A consent for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) may be given subject to reasonable conditions but shall not be unreasonably withheld.\n(3) Any dispute—\n(a) as to whether anything done or proposed to be done interferes or will interfere as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1);\n(b) as to whether any consent for the purposes of this paragraph is being unreasonably withheld; or\n(c) as to whether any condition subject to which any such consent has been given was reasonable,\nmay be referred by either party to the dispute to the Commission.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 40A inserted (1.4.2007) by Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3336 (N.I. 21)), arts. 1(2), 308(1), Sch. 12 para. 10(3) (with arts. 8(8), 121(3), 307); S.R. 2007/194, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt. II (subject to art. 3, Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1973/69/article/40A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:36.383193+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."
}