Belfast Water Act 1912
WHEREAS by the Belfast Water Acts 1840 to 1903 the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners (hereinafter called "the Commissioners") were incorporated and by those Acts their powers were from time to time regulated and extended:

And whereas by the Belfast Water Act 1893 (hereinafter called "the Act of 1893") the Commissioners were authorised for the purpose of supplementing their existing sources of supply to intercept the waters of the Kilkeel River and the Annalong River respectively ...