The Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995
1Citation and commencement
2Interpretation
3Sensitive areas and high natural dispersion areas
4Duty to provide and maintain sewers
5Requirements as to provision of treatment
6Discharges of treated urban waste water
7Discharges of industrial waste water to collecting systems or treatment plants
8Discharges of certain industrial waste water into receiving waters
9Dumping of sludge from ships
10Samples and records
11Monitoring
12Deposit of maps
13Information regarding the implementation of the Directive
SCHEDULE 1
PART ICRITERIA FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SENSITIVE AREAS
PART IICRITERIA FOR IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH NATURAL DISPERSION AREAS
SCHEDULE 2REQUIREMENTS FOR COLLECTING SYSTEMS
1Collecting systems shall take into account waste water treatment requirements....
2The design, construction and maintenance of collecting systems shall be...
SCHEDULE 3
PART IREQUIREMENTS FOR DISCHARGES FROM TREATMENT PLANTS
1Treatment plants shall be designed or modified so that representative...
2Discharges from urban waste water treatment plants subject to treatment...
3Discharges from urban waste water treatment plants to those sensitive...
4More stringent requirements than those shown in Table 1 and/or...
5The points of discharge of urban waste water shall be...
PART IIREFERENCE METHODS FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF RESULTS
1(a) The Department shall apply a monitoring method which corresponds...
2(a) Flow-proportioned or time-based 24-hour samples shall be collected at...
3The minimum annual number of samples shall be determined according...
4The treated waste water shall be assumed to conform to...
5Extreme values for the water quality in question shall not...
SCHEDULE 4INDUSTRIAL WASTE WATER
SCHEDULE 5INDUSTRIAL SECTORS REFERRED TO IN REGULATION 8
1Milk processing.
2Manufacture of fruit and vegetable products.
3Manufacture and bottling of soft drinks.
4Potato processing.
5Meat industry.
6Breweries.
7Production of alcohol and alcoholic beverages.
8Manufacturer of animal feed from plant products.
9Manufacture of gelatine and of glue from hides, skin and...
10Malt-houses.
11Fish-processing industry.

1995 No. 12

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
WATER AND SEWERAGE

The Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of the Environment, being a department designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to measures relating to the collection, treatment and discharge of urban waste water, and the treatment and discharge of waste water from certain industrial sectors, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations: