The Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Public information: duties of the Department N.I.

10.— [F1 (1) The Department shall use appropriate media and technologies including the internet to actively and promptly disseminate the information specified in regulation 9(1) together with the following additional information, in such languages in addition to English as are appropriate, having regard to the location of the bathing water and ease of understanding, namely—

(a) a list of all bathing waters;

(b) before the start of every bathing season, the classification in accordance with regulation 12 of every bathing water for the preceding three years;

(c) the bathing water profile of every bathing water;

(d) as soon as possible after completion of the analyses under Schedule 3, the results of the monitoring carried out in accordance with regulation 8 since the beginning of the current bathing season;

(e) where a bathing water is subject to or likely to be subject to incidents of short-term pollution—

(i) the conditions likely to lead to short-term pollution there;

(ii) the likelihood of the short-term pollution there and its likely duration;

(iii) the causes of short-term pollution; and

(iv) the relevant procedures for short-term pollution; and

(f) where a bathing water is classified as “poor” under regulation 12—

(i) the causes of pollution there; and

(ii) the management measures being taken there, under regulation 14, to prevent, reduce or eliminate the causes of pollution.]

(2) The Department shall—

(a) prepare a general description of every bathing water for use under regulation 9(1)(c); and

(b) make the information available to all bathing water operators.

(3) Information under this regulation shall—

(a) wherever possible, be provided using a geographic information system;

(b) be presented in a clear and coherent manner; and

(c) be in such languages, in addition to English, as are appropriate having regard to the location of the bathing water and the ease of public understanding.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 10(1) substituted (26.6.2013) by The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/151), regs. 1, 8

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 10 in operation at 24.3.2012 in so far as not already in operation, see reg. 1(4)

I2 Reg. 10 in operation at 30.9.2015 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(6)