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The Water Environment (Floods Directive) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Type Ni-Statutory-Rule

Publication 2018-07-05

State In force

Jurisdiction Northern Ireland

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Coming into operation: 27th July 2018

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs being a Department designated[^f00001] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[^f00002] in relation to the environment makes the following Regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section.

Citation and commencement

1

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Water Environment (Floods Directive) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 and will come into operation on 27th July 2018.

Amendment of the Water Environment (Floods Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

2

(1) The Water Environment (Floods Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009[^f00003] shall be amended as provided by paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In regulation 2 (Interpretation), in paragraph (2) for the definition of “the Department” there shall be substituted—

“the Department means the Department for Infrastructure;”

(3) In regulation 19(2)(a), for “Rivers” to the end substitute “its headquarters and through its website”.

(4) In regulation 19(4), for sub-paragraphs (d) to (f) substitute—

(d) the Department of Communities. (e) the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on 5th July 2018

Brian Doherty — A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Regulation 2 amends regulation 2(2) of the Water Environment (Floods Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 so as to make the Department for Infrastructure the competent authority for the purposes of the implementation of the Floods Directive. It also amends the list of consultees for flood risk management plans.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2000/2812 to which there are amendments not relevant to the subject matter of these Regulations and S.I. 2000/3238

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68

[^f00003]: S.R. 2009 No. 376

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