The Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Monitoring

13.  It shall be the duty of the Department—

(a) to monitor or procure the monitoring by a competent authority or appropriate body of discharges from urban waste water treatment plants to verify compliance with the relevant requirements of Part I of Schedule 3 in accordance with the control procedures set out in Part II of that Schedule;

(b) to monitor or procure the monitoring by a competent authority or appropriate body of waters subject to discharges from urban waste water treatment plants provided in accordance with regulation 7 in cases where it can be expected that the receiving environment will be significantly affected;

(c) to carry out or procure the carrying out by a competent authority or appropriate body of monitoring and any other relevant studies to verify that discharges to which regulation 7(5) applies do not adversely affect the environment.