{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-1973-repealed/article-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-1973-repealed/article-34.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1973/70",
  "legislation_title": "Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (REPEALED)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-1973-repealed",
  "path": "article/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Pollution of water belonging to the Ministry",
  "text": "(1) If any person commits an act whereby any water belonging to the Ministry or which the Ministry is authorised to take, is polluted, he shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Where a person is charged with an offence under this Article, it shall be a defence to prove that he exercised all reasonable care to prevent the act whereby the water in question was polluted.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale and to a further fine not exceeding £40 for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction or, on conviction on indictment, to a fine.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "functions transf. by SR 1999/481"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1973/70/article/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:35.237450+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."
}