The Surface Waters (Abstraction for Drinking Water) (Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Modification of section 4C of the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972

10.  Section 4C of the Water Act (Northern Ireland) shall have effect—

(a)as if it imposed a duty on the Department to exercise the powers conferred on it by that section to classify under these Regulations such waters as are necessary to give effect to Directive 75/440/EEC; and

(b)in relation to the performance of that duty, as if subsections (4), (5) and (7) of that section were omitted.