Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Review of licence

12.—(1) The Department shall periodically review a licence and may do so at any time.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), regulations 45, 46 and 48 of the 1995 Regulations (requirement to review existing decisions and consents, etc.) apply with the necessary modifications to a licence granted under these Regulations as they apply to the matters specified in regulations 49 to 64 of the 1995 Regulations but as if—

(a)references to the competent authority were references to the Department;

(b)references to any consent, permission or other authorisation were references to a licence under these Regulations;

(c)references to any plan or project were references to any controlled activity;

(d)in regulation 45(1) the words “or if later, the commencement of these Regulations” were omitted;

(e)in regulation 45(2) for the words “regulation 43(2) to (4)” there were substituted the words “regulation 43(2) and (4)”; and

(f)regulation 46(4) was omitted.