{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-16.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/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Background monitoring",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall operate background sampling points to provide the indicative measurements of—\n(a) concentrations of—\n(i) arsenic, cadmium, nickel and benzo(a)pyrene;\n(ii) the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in paragraph (1) of regulation 15; and\n(iii) total gaseous mercury.\n(b) total depositions of—\n(i) arsenic, cadmium, nickel and benzo(a)pyrene within the PM10 fraction;\n(ii) the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in paragraph (1) of regulation 15; and\n(iii) mercury.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) the Department shall ensure that—\n(a) at least one sampling point is installed for every 100,000km2; and\n(b) each sampling point is located in accordance with Annex III to Council Directive 2004/107/EC.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 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/16",
    "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."
}