The Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Discharges of treated urban waste water

8.—(1) Discharges from urban waste water treatment plants described in paragraphs (1) or (2) of regulation 7 or from any such plant which provides treatment in accordance with paragraph (5) of that regulation, (including any such plants which are provided other than by a sewerage undertaker) shall satisfy the relevant requirements of Part I of Schedule 3.

(2) It shall be the duty of the Department, in exercise of its functions under Part II of the 1999 Order (prevention of pollution of water) to secure—

(a) with respect to any such discharge as is described in paragraph (1), that the requirements of that paragraph are satisfied;

(b) with respect to any discharge described in paragraph (5) or (6) of regulation 7, that the requirements of the said paragraph (5) or, as the case may be, the said paragraph (6) are satisfied;

(c) with respect to any discharge from a collecting system described in regulation 6 or an urban waste water treatment plant described in regulation 7, the limitation of pollution of receiving waters due to storm water overflows; and

(d) that no sludge is discharged to surface waters.

(3) The Department shall at regular intervals review and if necessary for the purposes of complying with this regulation, modify or revoke consents granted under Part II of the 1999 Order.

(4) 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.