2012 No. 218
Environmental Protection

The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Made
Coming into operation
The Department of the Environment being a Department designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2 in relation to the environment, acting in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section, makes the following Regulations.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2012.

Interpretation2.

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(3 applies to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Amendments to the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20083.

For Schedule 1 to the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20084 substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 25th May 2012

Wesley Shannon
A senior officer of the
Department of the Environment

SCHEDULESchedule substituted for Schedule 1 to the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Regulation 3

“SCHEDULE 1BATHING WATERS

Regulation 3

  1. 1)

    Ballycastle

  2. 2)

    Ballygally

  3. 3)

    Ballyholme

  4. 4)

    Ballywalter

  5. 5)

    Benone (Magilligan)

  6. 6)

    Brown’s Bay

  7. 7)

    Carnlough

  8. 8)

    Castlerock

  9. 9)

    Cranfield (Cranfield Bay)

  10. 10)

    Crawfordsburn

  11. 11)

    Downhill

  12. 12)

    Groomsport

  13. 13)

    Helen’s Bay

  14. 14)

    Millisle

  15. 15)

    Murlough Bay

  16. 16)

    Newcastle

  17. 17)

    Portballintrae (Salmon Rock)

  18. 18)

    Portrush (Curran Strand)

  19. 19)

    Portrush Mill Strand)

  20. 20)

    Portstewart

  21. 21)

    Tyrella

  22. 22)

    Waterfoot

  23. 23)

    Whiterocks”

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations amend Schedule 1 of the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 to remove Cranfield (Nicholson’s Strand) from the list of bathing waters set out in the Schedule to those Regulations.