The Nitrates Action Programme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

The Department of the Environment and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being Departments designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2 in relation to the environment, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by that section and the Department of the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 32 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(3 and, in accordance with Article 32(3) of that Order, the Department of the Environment having published a notice indicating the effect of these Regulations and having taken into consideration the representations made to it in accordance with the notice, make the following Regulations.