{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-67",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-northern-ireland-2015/section-67.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2015/8",
  "legislation_title": "Reservoirs Act (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-act-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "section/67",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "67",
  "heading": "Enforcement notice: commissioning of engineers",
  "text": "(1) This section applies in relation to a controlled reservoir where it appears to the Department that—\n(a) the reservoir manager is required by section 25(2) to commission a supervising engineer, but no supervising engineer is for the time being commissioned,\n(b) the reservoir manager is required by section 34(1) to commission an inspecting engineer, but no inspecting engineer is for the time being commissioned,\n(c) the reservoir manager is required by section 43(2)(a) to commission a construction engineer, but no construction engineer is for the time being commissioned.\n(2) The Department may by notice (“the notice”) served on the reservoir manager of the reservoir require the manager—\n(a) to commission the relevant engineer before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice is given (unless the reservoir manager has already commissioned the relevant engineer),\n(b) before the expiry of such period as is specified in the notice, to give notice to the Department of the commissioning (whether it was made before or after the notice was given).\n(3) In subsection (2)(a) and sections 69 and 70, “the relevant engineer” is a supervising engineer, an inspecting engineer or (as appropriate) a construction engineer.",
  "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/67",
    "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."
}