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Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 Introduction

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

    3. 3.Meaning of “hazardous substance”

    4. 4.Meaning of “non-hazardous pollutant”

    5. 5.Exceptions

    6. 6.Exemptions granted by the Department

  3. PART 2 Groundwater assessment

    1. 7.General duty in the Neagh Bann, North Western and Shannon International River Basin Districts

    2. 8.Threshold values

    3. 9.Criteria for assessing groundwater chemical status

    4. 10.Significant and sustained upward trends and the starting point for trend reversal

    5. 11.Information to be included in a river basin management plan

  4. PART 3 Authorisations

    1. 12.Granting an authorisation

    2. 13.Review of existing disposal licences and existing resolutions of a District Council

    3. 14.Preventing the input of hazardous substances into groundwater

    4. 15.Limiting the input of non-hazardous pollutants into groundwater

    5. 16.Discharges that may be authorised

    6. 17.Authorisations generally

    7. 18.Review of authorisations

  5. PART 4 Discharge of a hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant

    1. 19.Discharge of a hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant

    2. 20.Application of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999

    3. 21.Transfer of an authorisation under regulation 19

    4. 22.Grant of an authorisation under regulation 19

    5. 23.Appeals against refusal, variation or revocation of an authorisation

  6. PART 5 Enforcement and penalties

    1. 24.Power to require the provision of information

    2. 25.Notice to prevent or control the input of hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant

    3. 26.Appeals against notices

    4. 27.Codes of practice

    5. 28.Particulars to be included in registers

    6. 29.Penalties

    7. 30.Corporate offences

    8. 31.Revocation

  7. Signature

  8. Explanatory Note

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