{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-98",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-and-sewerage-services-northern-ireland-order-2006/article-98.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/98",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Supplies for other public purposes",
  "text": "(1) A water undertaker shall, at the request of a sewerage undertaker, the Department or a district council, provide, from such of its pipes as are of an appropriate capacity, a supply of water for cleansing sewers and drains or for cleansing and watering roads.\n(2) A supply of water provided by a water undertaker under this Article shall be provided upon such terms and conditions as may be reasonable.\n(3) A water main or other pipe of a water undertaker shall be treated as of an appropriate capacity for the purposes of this Article if and only if it has a fire-hydrant fixed on it.\n(4) Nothing in this Article shall require a water undertaker to do anything which it is unable to do by reason of the carrying out of any necessary works.\n(5) The obligations of a water undertaker under this Article shall be enforceable under Article 30 by the Authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 98 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/98",
    "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."
}