The Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I INTRODUCTORY

   1. 1. Title and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART II POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL

   1. Regulation of polluting activities

      1. 3. Purpose of Article 4

      2. 4. Regulation of polluting activities

   2. Waste management: site licences

      1. 5. New transitional provisions for disposal licences treated as site licences

      2. 6. Disposal licences which expire before commencement of waste management licensing

   3. Financial assistance by Department

      1. 7. Financial assistance by Department

   4. Supplementary

      1. 8. Interpretation of this Part

4. PART III AIR QUALITY

   1. Air quality

      1. 9. Implementation of Directive

      2. 10. Air quality strategy

      3. 11. District council reviews

      4. 12. Designation of air quality management areas

      5. 13. Further provisions in relation to designated areas

      6. 14. Reserve powers

      7. 15. Regulations

      8. 16. Recommendations and guidance

      9. 17. Supplemental provisions

   2. General

      1. 18. Financial assistance

      2. 19. Powers of enforcing authorities and persons authorised by them

      3. 20. Offences

      4. 21. Disclosure of information

      5. 22. Power to give effect to Community and other international obligations, etc.

      6. 23. Offences by bodies corporate

      7. 24. Offences under this Part due to fault of others

      8. 25. Application to Crown

      9. 26. Regulations and directions

      10. 27. Interpretation of this Part

5. PART IV AREAS OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

   1. Areas of special scientific interest

      1. 28. Declaration of ASSI

      2. 29. Variation of declaration

      3. 30. Declaration of additional land

      4. 31. Denotification

   2. Duties of owners and occupiers of land included in ASSI

      1. 32. Duties of owners and occupiers of land included in ASSI

      2. 33. Appeals in connection with consents

      3. 34. Management agreements

      4. 35. Management notices

      5. 36. Appeals against management notices

      6. 37. Payments by Department

   3. Duties of public bodies in relation to land included in ASSI

      1. 38. Public bodies: general duty

      2. 39. Public bodies: duties in relation to operations

      3. 40. Public bodies: duties in relation to authorising operations

   4. Powers of Department

      1. 41. Powers to acquire land

      2. 42. Powers to carry out works, etc.

      3. 43. Power to enter into agreements concerning land adjacent to an ASSI

      4. 44. Powers of entry

      5. 45. Power to make byelaws for ASSI

   5. Offence

      1. 46. Offences

      2. 47. Restoration following offences under Article 46

   6. Supplementary

      1. 48. Matters affecting agriculture, forestry and inland fisheries

      2. 49. Application of this Part to the Crown

      3. 50. Statutory charges

      4. 51. Transitional provisions relating to this Part

      5. 52. Interpretation of this Part

6. PART V SUPPLEMENTARY

   1. 53. Amendments and repeals

7. Signature

8. SCHEDULES:

   1. Schedule 1

      Particular purposes for which provision may be made under Article 4

      1. Part I List of purposes

      2. Part II Supplementary provisions

   2. Schedule 2

      Air quality: Supplemental provisions

   3. Schedule 3

      Supplemental provisions with respect to powers of entry

   4. Schedule 4

      Transitional provisions

   5. Schedule 5

      Amendments

      1. Part I Pollution prevention and control

      2. Part II Air quality

      3. Part III Areas of special scientific interest

   6. Schedule 6

      Repeals

      1. Part I Pollution prevention and control

      2. Part II Areas of special scientific interest

9. Explanatory Note