{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-145",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-145.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2006/3336",
  "legislation_title": "The Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/145",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "145",
  "heading": "Duty to promote efficient use of water",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of every water undertaker to promote the efficient use of water by its customers.\n(2) The duty of a water undertaker under this Article shall be enforceable under Article 30—\n(a) by the Department; or\n(b) with the consent of or in accordance with a general authorisation given by the Department, by the Authority.\n(3) Nothing in this Part shall have effect to authorise or require a water undertaker to impose any requirement on any of its customers or potential customers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 145 wholly in operation at 1.4.2007, see art. 1(2) and S.R. 2007/194, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt. II (subject to art. 3, Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2006/3336/article/145",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:17.351012+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."
}