Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

PART 1Introduction

1Citation and commencement

2Interpretation

3Meaning of “hazardous substance”

4Meaning of “non-hazardous pollutant”

6Exemptions granted by the Department

PART 2Groundwater assessment

7General Duty in the Neagh Bann, North Western and Shannon International River Basin Districts

8Threshold values

9Criteria and Procedure for assessing groundwater chemical status

10Significant and sustained upward trends and the starting point for trend reversal

11Information to be included in a river basin management plan

PART 3Authorisations

12Granting an authorisation

13Review of existing disposal licences and existing resolutions of a District Council

14Measures to prevent the input of hazardous substances into groundwater

15Measures to limit the input of non-hazardous pollutants into groundwater

16Discharges that may be authorised

17Authorisations generally

18Review of authorisations

PART 4Discharge of a hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant

19Discharge of a hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant

20Application of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999

21Transfer of an authorisation under regulation 19

22Grant of an authorisation under regulation 19

23Appeals against refusal, variation or revocation of an authorisation

PART 5Enforcement and penalties

24Power to require the provision of information

25Notice to prevent or control the input of hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant

26Appeals against notices

27Codes of practice

28Particulars to be included in registers

30Corporate offences

SCHEDULE 1Groundwater Threshold Values

SCHEDULE 2Modifications of Directives

PART 1Modifications of the Water Framework Directive

1A reference to the Water Framework Directive or to any...

2When interpreting the Water Framework Directive for the purposes of...

3Article 2(24) is to be read as if, for the...

4Article 3 is to be read as if—

5Article 4 is to be read as if—

6Article 7(2) is to be read as if—

7Article 11(3) is to be read as if—

8In Article 13— (a) paragraph 2 is to be read...

9Annex 2 is to be read as if—

10Annex 5 is to be read as if—

11Annex 7 is to be read as if, in Part...

PART 2Modifications of the Directive

1A reference to the Directive, or to any provision of...

2When interpreting the Directive for the purposes of these Regulations—...

3Article 3 is to be read as if—

4Article 5 is to be read as if in each...

5Annex 1 is to be read as if—

6Annex 2 is to be read as if, in Part...

2009 No. 254

European Communities

Environmental Protection

Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Made2nd July 2009

Coming into operation10th August 2009

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19721 hereby makes the following Regulations: