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LOUGH NEAGH DRAINAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970

LOUGH NEAGH DRAINAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to make further provision with respect to the levels of
Lough Neagh.
[5th February 1970]
Levels of Lough Neagh.

LOUGH NEAGH DRAINAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT
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1.(1) The purposes for which a scheme may be made under section 1
of the Lough Neagh and Lower Bann Drainage and Navigation Act
(Northern Ireland) 1955 shall include the following:

(a)permitting water to be abstracted from Lough Neagh and the Lower
Bann River;

(b)facilitating the disposal of effluents from the Lough;

(c)preserving fisheries and natural beauty;

(d)facilitating recreation and tourism; and

(e)conserving fauna and flora.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in the Lough Neagh (Levels) Scheme 1955,
the Ministry of Agriculture may permit the level of Lough Neagh to
fall below the lower level specified in that Scheme during such
period as it appears to the Ministry necessary to do so in order
to make good, as far as is reasonably practicable, any diminution
in the flow in the Lower Bann River resulting from abstractions,
approved by the Ministry of Development and commenced before 31st
December, 1975, from the River and the Lough.

LOUGH NEAGH DRAINAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT
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Short title and citation.

2. This Act may be cited as the Lough Neagh Drainage (Amendment)
Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 and this Act and the Lough Neagh and
Lower Bann Drainage and Navigation Act (Northern Ireland) 1955 may
be cited together as the Lough Neagh Drainage Acts (Northern
Ireland) 1955 and 1970.