The Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Discharges of certain industrial waste water into receiving watersN.I.

10.—(1) This regulation applies to discharges of biodegradable industrial waste water from plants representing 4,000 p.e. or more belonging to the industrial sectors listed in Schedule 5 which does not enter urban waste water treatment plants before discharge to receiving waters.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Department to impose, in every consent granted under Part II of the 1999 Order (prevention of pollution of water) with respect to any discharge to which this regulation applies (whether on the grant of consent or by notice under paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Order), conditions which are appropriate to the nature of the industry concerned for the discharge of such waste water.

(3) Nothing in paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Order shall restrict the power of the Department to modify or revoke a consent in pursuance of the duty imposed by this regulation.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 10 in operation at 1.4.2007, see reg. 1