Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 3336 (N.I. 21) of 2006).

This Order concerns the reform of the water industry in Northern Ireland. It transfers responsibility for delivery of water and sewerage services from the Department for Regional Development to a government owned company and places extensive general and specific duties on the company as a water and sewerage undertaker. It provides detailed statutory powers to enable water and sewerage undertakers to carry out their duties, with suitable safeguards for customers. The Order establishes a regulatory regime for which the Department shall be responsible. The Department of the Environment will continue to have regulatory responsibility for provisions on private water supplies.