Section 74(1)

An ordinary drought order made on the application of the appropriate agency may contain any of the following provisions, that is to say— provision authorising the appropriate agency (or persons authorised to do so by the appropriate agency) to take water from any source specified in the order subject to any conditions or restrictions so specified; provision authorising the appropriate agency (or persons authorised to do so by the appropriate agency) to discharge water to any place specified in the order subject to any conditions or restrictions so specified; provision authorising the appropriate agency to prohibit or limit the taking by any person (including a water undertaker) of water from a source specified in the order if the appropriate agency is satisfied that the taking of water from that source seriously affects the supplies available to the appropriate agency, any water undertaker or any other person; provision suspending or modifying, subject to any conditions specified in the order, any restriction or obligation to which the appropriate agency, any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker or any other person is subject as respects— the taking of water from any source; the discharge of water; the supply of water (whether in point of quantity, pressure, quality, means of supply or otherwise); or the filtration or other treatment of water; provision authorising the appropriate agency to suspend or vary, or attach conditions to, any environmental permit specified in the order for the discharge of any effluent by any person, including any sewerage undertaker or water undertaker.

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