{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-northern-ireland-order-1999/article-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-northern-ireland-order-1999/article-57.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1999/662",
  "legislation_title": "The Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-northern-ireland-order-1999",
  "path": "article/57",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Water management programmes",
  "text": "(1) The Department may by order adopt a water management programme with respect to the water resources of any area.\n(2) A water management programme may contain—\n(a) an assessment of the quantity and quality of the water resources of the area;\n(b) a description of the present pattern of use of those resources;\n(c) a forecast of the future demand for the use of those resources;\n(d) proposals for the future use and management of those resources;\n(e) provisions with respect to such matters relating to those resources as appear to the Department to be appropriate.\n(3) Schedule 6 shall have effect with respect to the making of orders under paragraph (1).\n(4) A water management programme shall become operative on the date appointed for the purpose in the order under paragraph (1) adopting the programme.\n(5) The Department shall, at intervals which do not exceed 7 years, review any water management programme adopted under this Article.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 57 substituted (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 69(a) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 57(6) omitted (8.5.2016) by virtue of The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 69(b) (with art. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 57: transfer of functions (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 (with art. 9(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1999/662/article/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:44.285614+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."
}