Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2012 No. 442

Environmental Protection

The Water Framework Directive (Priority Substances and Classification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Made

7th December 2012

Coming into operation

31st December 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 and by Article 5 of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(3), makes the following Regulations.

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Water Framework Directive (Priority Substances and Classification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 31^st December 2012.

2. The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(4) applies to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Amendment to the Water Framework Directive (Priority Substances and Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

3. In Regulation 8 (inventory of emissions, discharges and losses) of the Water Framework Directive (Priority Substances and Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011(5), for the date “31 December 2012” substitute “22^nd December 2013”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 7th December 2012

Wesley Shannon

A senior officer of the Department of the Environment

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the date, by which the Department of the Environment has to establish an inventory of emissions, discharges and losses of all substances listed in Table 38 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Water Framework (Priority Substances and Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 from 31^st December 2012 to 22^nd December 2013.

(1)

S.I. 2008/301

(2)

1972 c.68

(3)

S.I. 1999/662 (N.I. 6)

(4)

1954 c.33 (N.I.)

(5)

S.R. 2011 No.10