{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-and-impoundment-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-and-impoundment-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/482",
  "legislation_title": "Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-and-impoundment-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations shall not apply to a person who—\n(a) holds a licence under Article 10(1)(a) of the Electricity (NI) Order 1992 (licences to supply electricity etc); and\n(b) is acting in accordance with an authorisation obtained from the Department under paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 to that Order (abstraction, diversion and use of water for hydro-electric generating stations).\n(2) Regulation 4 shall not apply—\n(a) to the doing of anything for—\n(i) extinguishing fires;\n(ii) protecting life and property in the event of fire; or\n(iii) for the purpose of testing apparatus used for either of those purposes or for training or practice in the use of such apparatus; and\n(b) to any abstraction by machinery or apparatus installed on a vessel, where the water is abstracted for use on that, or any other, vessel.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 1.2.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/231 (N.I.1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/482/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:44:02.886135+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."
}