The Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

PART 2 N.I. GENERAL

Identification of bathing waters N.I.

[F1 3.— (1) The Department shall identify all bathing waters in Northern Ireland on an annual basis.

(2) The Department shall list in Schedule 1 the bathing waters identified in paragraph (1).

(3) The Department shall publish the following information on an annual basis and in accordance with paragraph (4)—

(a) a complete list of all bathing waters identified in paragraph (1);

(b) details of all surface waters at which permanent advice against bathing has been issued (and not withdrawn) under regulation 14, including in relation to each surface water, the reasons for that advice.

(4) The information to be published under paragraph (3) shall be actively disseminated before the start of the bathing season using appropriate media and technologies including the internet, and in such languages as appropriate.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 3 substituted (26.6.2013) by The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/151), regs. 1, 5

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in operation at 30.6.2008, see reg. 1(2)

Length of bathing season N.I.

4.  For the purposes of these Regulations, the bathing season begins on the 1^st June and ends at the end of the day on 15^th September in each year.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 4 in operation at 30.6.2008, see reg. 1(2)

General duties N.I.

5.—(1) The Department shall in the exercise of its relevant functions—

(a) ensure that by the end of the bathing season in 2015, all bathing waters are classified under regulation 12 as at least “sufficient”;

(b) take such realistic and proportionate measures as it considers appropriate in order to increase the number of bathing waters classified under regulation 12 as “good” or “excellent”; and

(c) otherwise ensure compliance with the requirements of the Bathing Water Directive.

(2) In this regulation “relevant functions” means functions under these Regulations and so far as relevant the enactments specified in Schedule 2 to the Water Framework Regulations.

(3) In the Water Framework Regulations, in Schedule 2 (relevant functions), in Part 2, after paragraph 26 insert—

“27. The Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland)2008.”.

(4) The Department shall promptly provide a bathing water operator with such information as the Department considers the operator requires for the purpose of the operator’s functions under these Regulations.

Commencement Information

I3 Reg. 5 in operation at 30.6.2008, see reg. 1(2)

Public participation N.I.

6.—(1) The Department shall—

(a) encourage public participation in the exercise of its functions under these Regulations; and

(b) ensure that the public has an opportunity—

(i) to find out how to participate; and

(ii) to submit comments or complaints.

(2) The Department shall take due account of any information it has obtained from the public when exercising its functions under these Regulations.

Commencement Information

I4 Reg. 6 in operation at 30.6.2008, see reg. 1(2)

Bathing water profiles N.I.

7.— [F2 (1) The Department shall, in relation to every bathing water, in accordance with Schedule 2—

(a) if it has not already done so, establish a bathing water profile before the start of the bathing season; and

(b) keep every bathing water profile under review.]

(2) The Department may combine the bathing water profiles of contiguous bathing waters.

(3) When complying with paragraph (1), the Department shall take into account the data which it has obtained or analysed under—

(a) The Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(1); and

(b) The Water Framework Regulations.

Textual Amendments

F2 Reg. 7(1) substituted (26.6.2013) by The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/151), regs. 1, 6

Commencement Information

I5 Reg. 7 in operation at 24.3.2011, see reg. 1(3)

(1)

S.R. 1993 No. 205