Section 74(2)

An ordinary drought order made on the application of a water undertaker may contain any of the following provisions, that is to say— provision authorising the water undertaker to take water from any source specified in the order subject to any conditions or restrictions so specified; provision authorising the water undertaker to prohibit or limit the use of water for any purpose specified in the order, being a purpose for the time being set out in a direction given by the Secretary of State to water undertakers generally as a purpose which may be specified by virtue of this paragraph in any ordinary drought order; provision authorising the water undertaker 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 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 water undertaker; provision prohibiting or limiting the taking by the appropriate agency of water from a source specified in the order if the taking of water from that source is determined, in accordance with provision made by the order, seriously to affect the supplies available to the water undertaker; provision suspending or modifying, subject to any conditions specified in the order, any restriction or obligation to which the water undertaker or any sewerage undertaker or 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 the company which applied for the order (whether in the capacity in which it made the application, in its capacity as a sewerage undertaker or in any other capacity).

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30