This Ordinance makes provision for the management of water resources, the abstraction and supply of water, sewerage, drought management, freshwater pollution and related matters. The Ordinance consists of 11 sections, divided into 12 Parts: Preliminary (I); Water and Sewerage Board (II); Abstraction of Water (III); Appointment and Regulation of Undertakers (IV); Water Supply (V); Sewerage Services (VI); Financial Provisions (VII); Undertakers’ Powers and Works (VIII); Information Provisions (IX); Drought (X); Control of Pollution (XI); Miscellaneous (XII). (completed by one Schedule) The Water and Sewerage Board is established for purposes of this Ordinance. The Board shall provide advice to the Minister on water matters and carry out various other functions for the control and regulation of the water industry. The Board shall each year make to the Minister a report on its activities during that year. A licence to abstract water shall be granted by the Minister. Groundwater abstraction shall be subject to specified conditions. The restriction on abstraction shall not apply to underground water abstracted by an individual for domestic purposes of his or her household. Only qualified person may make applications for abstraction licences. In dealing with an application for a licence relating to abstraction from underground strata, the Minister shall have regard to the requirements of existing lawful uses of water abstracted from the strata, whether for agriculture, industry, water supply or other purposes . The Minister may appoint a company to be a water undertaker or sewerage undertaker or a water and sewerage undertaker for any defined geographical area of the Islands. An appointment may include such conditions as appear to the Minister to be requisite or expedient. The Minister may issue an Enforcement Order to an undertaker for the purpose of securing compliance with a condition or requirement. No person shall supply for gain any water by means of a main or other pipe to any premises except by or under a licence issued by the Minister and subject to conditions attached to such licence. The Ordinance sets out general duties of water undertakers. (domestic supply duty, maintenance, etc.). and provides with respect to enforcement of a domestic supply duty. It also concerns supplies for non-domestic use. The Minister may prescribe rules and standards for (the supply of) potable water. It shall be the duty of a water undertaker when supplying water to any premises for domestic or food production purposes to supply only water which is potable at the time of supply. The Minister may make Regulations requiring a water undertaker to take all such steps as may be prescribed for the purpose of securing compliance with this requirement. The Ordinance defines offences relating to contamination of water, the supply of water unfit for human consumption, waste or misuse of water, and other offences regarding pollution of water. The occupier of any trade premises in the area of a sewerage undertaker may discharge any trade effluent proceeding from those premises into the undertaker’s public sewers if he or she does so with the undertaker’s consent. The power of a sewerage undertaker shall include the power to impose specified conditions for discharge. Every water and sewerage undertaker shall report yearly to the Minister on its activities. The Minister shall have the power to make Ordinary Drought Orders or Emergency Drought Orders. The Ordinance defines drought offences.
特克斯和凯科斯群岛（英国） · 1994-01-01