The Control of Pollution (Applications and Registers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Pollution control registers

7.  Subject to Articles 31 and 32 of the 1999 Order and regulations 8 and 9, registers maintained by the Department under Article 30 of the 1999 Order (pollution control registers) shall contain full particulars of—

(a) notices of water quality objectives and other notices served under Article 6 of the 1999 Order;

(b) notices served under Article 8 of the 1999 Order and any convictions for offences under that Article;

(c) applications made for consents, or for the variation of consents, under Article 9 of, and Schedule 1, to the 1999 Order, together with information provided in connection with such applications;

(d) consents given under Article 9 of, and Schedule 1, to the 1999 Order the conditions to which the consents are subject and any variation of the consents;

(e) the date and time of each sample of water or effluent taken by the Department for the purposes of the water pollution provisions of the 1999 Order (including details of the place where it was taken) and the result of the analysis of each sample and the steps, if any, taken in consequence by the Department;

(f) information corresponding to that mentioned in paragraph (e) with respect to samples of water or effluent taken by any other person, and the analysis of those samples, acquired by the Department from that person under arrangements made by the Department for the purposes of any of the water pollution provisions of the 1999 Order, including any steps taken by that person in consequence of the results of the analysis of any sample;

(g) enforcement notices served under Article 12 of the 1999 Order;

(h) revocations of discharge consents under paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Order;

(i) any appeal under Article 13 of the 1999 Order, written notification of the decision reported to the Department by the Water Appeals Commission under Article 8(2) of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973(1) and in the circumstances set out in Article 8(4) thereof written notification of the Department’s intention and its reasons therefore under Article 8(5) of that Order;

(j) convictions, for offences under Article 9 of the 1999 Order, of persons who have the benefit of discharge consents, including the name of the offender, the date of conviction, the penalty imposed, the costs, if any, awarded against the offender and the name of the Court;

(k) returns and other information about the nature, origin, composition, temperature, volume and rate of discharges provided to the Department in pursuance of conditions of discharge consents;

(l) information contained in registers mentioned in regulation 21 of the Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(2); and

(m) monitoring information received by the Department under regulation 11 of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1995(3).

(1)

S.I. 1973/70 (N.I. 2) as amended by S.I. 1993/3165 (N.I. 16) Art. 6(1)(b)

(2)

S.R. 1998 No. 401

(3)

S.R. 1995 No. 12