9.—(1) The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 17 (Provision of information to the public), in paragraph (2)(d), for “Member State” substitute “country”.
(3) In regulation 20 (Trans-boundary consequences)—
(a)in paragraph (1), for “Member State” in both places substitute “country”;
(b)omit paragraph (2).
(4) In regulation 26 (Action to be taken following a major accident)—
(a)in paragraph (3), for the words from the beginning to “information” substitute “Following a major accident, the competent authority may, where appropriate, provide international organisations with some, or all, of the following information”;
(b)omit paragraph (4);
(c)at the end insert—
“(6) For the purposes of paragraph (3), an organisation is an international organisation if it, and its subordinate bodies, are governed by international law or it is set up by, or on the basis of, an agreement between two or more countries.”.
(5) In paragraph 2(g) of Part 2 of Schedule 4, for “Member States” substitute “countries”.
(6) Omit Schedule 5.