The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2012 No. 218

Environmental Protection

The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Made

25th May 2012

Coming into operation

1st June 2012

The Department of the Environment being a Department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972((2) in relation to the environment, acting in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section, makes the following Regulations.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2012.

Interpretation

2.  The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954((3) applies to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Amendments to the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

3.  For Schedule 1 to the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(4) substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 25th May 2012

Legal seal

Wesley Shannon

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Regulation 3

SCHEDULESchedule substituted for Schedule 1 to the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Regulation 3

“SCHEDULE 1BATHING WATERS

1)

Ballycastle

2)

Ballygally

3)

Ballyholme

4)

Ballywalter

5)

Benone (Magilligan)

6)

Brown’s Bay

7)

Carnlough

8)

Castlerock

9)

Cranfield (Cranfield Bay)

10)

Crawfordsburn

11)

Downhill

12)

Groomsport

13)

Helen’s Bay

14)

Millisle

15)

Murlough Bay

16)

Newcastle

17)

Portballintrae (Salmon Rock)

18)

Portrush (Curran Strand)

19)

Portrush Mill Strand)

20)

Portstewart

21)

Tyrella

22)

Waterfoot

23)

Whiterocks”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations amend Schedule 1 of the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 to remove Cranfield (Nicholson’s Strand) from the list of bathing waters set out in the Schedule to those Regulations.