# The Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002, Paragraph 3


Enabling the Department or the Secretary of State to give directions which enforcing authorities are to comply with, or guidance which enforcing authorities are to have regard to, in exercising functions under the regulations, including—
(a) directions providing for any functions exercisable by one enforcing authority to be instead exercisable by another, or by the Department or Secretary of State;
(b) directions given for the purposes of the implementation of—
(i) any assimilated obligations;
(ii) any obligations of the United Kingdom under any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party;
(c) directions relating to the exercise of any function in a particular case or class of case.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/3153/schedule/1/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002/schedule-1/paragraph-3
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