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LOUGH NEAGH DRAINAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 1

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.

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