{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-72.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/72",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Water resources management plans: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) Directions given under Article 70 , 70A or 71 may be—\n(a) general directions applying to all water undertakers; or\n(b) directions applying only to one or more water undertakers specified in the directions,\nand shall be given by an instrument in writing.\n(2) It shall be the duty of each water undertaker to whom directions apply to comply with the directions.\n(3) The duties of a water undertaker under Articles 70 , 70A and 71 and under this Article shall be enforceable by the Department under Article 30.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 72(1) inserted (23.3.2016) by Water and Sewerage Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 7), s. 8, Sch. 1 para. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 72(3) inserted (23.3.2016) by Water and Sewerage Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 7), s. 8, Sch. 1 para. 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 72 in operation at 1.1.2007 in so far as it confers power on a Northern Ireland department to make regulations or orders or makes provision with respect to the exercise of any such power, see art. 1(3)(e); art. 72 in operation at 16.6.2010 by S.R. 2010/216, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2006/3336/article/72",
    "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."
}