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WATER ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 4

Northern Ireland Water Council.

4.(1) The Ministers shall appoint a council, to be known as the Northern
Ireland Water Council (in this section referred to as "the Council"), to
advise the Ministry and the Ministry of Agriculture on the exercise of their
functions under this Act.

(2) The Council shall consist of not more than fifteen persons, each of whom
shall

(a)hold office for a period of three years;

(b)be eligible for reappointment.

(3) The Ministers shall appoint the chairman of the Council.

(4) The Ministry may pay to members of the Council such travelling,
subsistence or other allowances as the Ministry may, with the approval of
the Ministry of Finance, determine.

[(4A) Where the place of a member becomes vacant before the expiration of his
term of office, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Ministers
and any person so appointed shall

(a)hold office for the remainder of the term of the former member;

(b)be eligible for reappointment.]

(5) The Council may regulate its own proceedings.

(6) In this section "the Ministers" means the Minister of Agriculture and the
Minister of Development.

Pollution etc., of water.

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