{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2010/188",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Quality Standards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Monitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall monitor concentrations of other relevant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in addition to benzo(a)pyrene as it thinks fit, including at least the following—\n(a) benzo(a)anthracene,\n(b) benzo(b)fluoranthene,\n(c) benzo(j)fluoranthene,\n(d) benzo(k)fluoranthene,\n(e) indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene,\n(f) dibenz(a,h)anthracene.\n(2) Monitoring sites shall be located together with sampling points for benzo(a)pyrene.\n(3) Monitoring sites shall be selected so that geographical variations and long-term trends in the concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons can be identified.\n(4) Monitoring sites shall be selected in accordance with the criteria in Sections I to III of Annex III to Council Directive 2004/107/EC.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in operation at 11.6.2010, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/188/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:26:55.517845+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}