{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-1973-repealed/article-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-1973-repealed/article-47.json",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  "legislation_title": "Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (REPEALED)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-1973-repealed",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/47",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Production of plans and furnishing of information",
  "text": "(1) The Department may require the owner or occupier of any land on or under which is situated any drain used or intended to be used for discharging any sewage into a sewer or sewage treatment works of the Ministry or pipe used or intended to be used for connecting with any main. . .\n(a) to produce to the Ministry all such plans of the drain or pipe as the owner or occupier, as the case may be, possesses or is able without unreasonable expense to obtain, and allow copies of the plans so produced by him to be made by, or under the direction of, the Ministry, and\n(b) to furnish in writing to the Ministry all such information as the owner or occupier, as the case may be, can reasonably be expected to supply with respect to the drain and any sewage discharged therefrom or with respect to the pipe.\n(2) A person who fails to comply with this Article shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "functions transf. by SR 1999/481"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1993 NI 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1973/70/article/47",
    "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."
}