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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER AND SEWERAGE\nMade 31st October 2002\nComing into operation in accordance with Regulation 1(2) to (5)\nThe Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 3B and 3C of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 and, being a department designated for the purposes of Section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the quality of water intended for domestic purposes or for use in food production undertaking in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section and of every other power enabling it on that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1973/70 (N.I. 2) as amended by the Water and Sewerage Services (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/3165 (N.I. 16) Art. 4. Art. 2 contains a definition of “prescribed”"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I 1998/2793"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/331/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:06:16.045012+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."
}