{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/212",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Publicity for authorisations",
  "text": "(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after a departure has been authorised, the water undertaker must—\n(a) publish in a newspaper circulating in the area in which the supply zone to which the authorisation relates is situated—\n(i) except in a case to which regulation 25(5) applies, a notice containing a statement of the matters specified in paragraph (3)(a)(ii), (iii), (viii) and (ix) of that regulation;\n(ii) in a case to which 25(5) applies, and if the Department so requires, a notice containing a statement of the matters specified in paragraph (3)(a)(ii), (iii) and (ix) of that regulation;\n(b) give such other public notice of the authorisation and of its terms and conditions as the Department may, by notice in writing to the water undertaker, reasonably require.\n(2) As soon as reasonably practicable after a departure has been authorised, a water undertaker must—\n(a) separately publish, by making accessible, free of charge, on its website via a hyperlink maintained on its respective homepage for at least 14 days—\n(i) except in a case to which regulation 25(5) applies, a notice containing a statement of the matters specified in paragraph (3)(a)(ii), (iii), (viii), and (ix) of that regulation; and\n(ii) in a case to which 25(5) applies, publish a notice containing a statement of the matters specified in paragraph (3)(a)(ii), (iii), and (ix) of that regulation; and\n(b) give such other public notice of the authorisation and of its terms and conditions as the Department may, by notice served on a water undertaker, reasonably require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/212/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:01.047970+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."
}