{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-166",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-166.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/166",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "166",
  "heading": "Unlawful communications",
  "text": "(1) Any person who causes a drain or sewer to communicate with a public sewer—\n(a) in contravention of any of the provisions of Article 163 or 165; or\n(b) before the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (5) of Article 163,\nshall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(2) Whether proceedings have or have not been taken by a sewerage undertaker in respect of an offence under this Article, such an undertaker may—\n(a) close any communication made in contravention of any of the provisions of Article 163 or 165; and\n(b) recover summarily as a civil debt from the offender any expenses reasonably incurred by the undertaker in so doing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 166 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/166",
    "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."
}