{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2015/8",
  "legislation_title": "Reservoirs Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Supervision requirement and commissioning of supervising engineer etc.",
  "text": "(1) A high-consequence or medium-consequence reservoir must, at all times, be under the supervision of a supervising engineer.\n(2) The reservoir manager of a high-consequence or medium-consequence reservoir must, not later than 6 months after the date on which the designation of the reservoir as such takes effect (see sections 19, 20(5) and 21(7)), commission a supervising engineer.\n(3) A “supervising engineer” is an engineer duly commissioned under subsection (2) to supervise the reservoir, at all times, in accordance with section 26.\n(4) A reservoir manager who commissions a supervising engineer in accordance with subsection (2) must, not later than 28 days after the commissioning, give notice of it to the Department.\n(5) An engineer may be commissioned as a supervising engineer if the engineer is a member of a panel of reservoir engineers established under section 102 who may (by virtue of an order under that section) be commissioned under this section as a supervising engineer in relation to the reservoir.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2015/8/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:11.423522+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."
}