{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2009/995",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Enforcing authorities in other cases",
  "text": "(1) If the damage is caused by an activity that does not require a permit or registration under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 these Regulations are enforced in accordance with the following table.\nType of environmental damage\nArea of damage\nEnforcing authority\nDamage to water—\nNatural Resources Body for Wales\nDamage to marine waters—\nAll marine waters out to 12 nautical miles from the baseline in Wales\nthe Welsh Ministers\nDamage to protected species or natural habitats or a site of special scientific interest—\nland\nNatural Resources Body for Wales\nwater but not in the sea(1)\nNatural Resources Body for Wales\nthe sea\n— if the damage is due to an activity authorised by the Natural Resources Body for Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales;\n— otherwise the Welsh Ministers\nDamage to land—\nLocal authority\n(1) “Sea” includes—\n(a) any area submerged at mean high water spring tide; and\n(b) each of the following, so far as the tide flows at mean high water spring tide—\n(i) every estuary or arm of the sea; and\n(ii) the waters of any channel, creek, bay or river.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may give directions to an enforcing authority of a general or specific character with respect to the carrying out of its functions under these Regulations.\n(3) An enforcing authority must comply with a direction given to it under these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1) substituted (1.1.2017) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1154), reg. 1(1), Sch. 29 para. 30(3)(a) (with regs. 1(3), 77-79, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 53(2)(a) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1) inserted (19.7.2015) by The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1394), regs. 1(2), 2(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1) inserted (19.7.2015) by The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1394), regs. 1(2), 2(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1) inserted (19.7.2015) by The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1394), regs. 1(2), 2(7)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 53(2)(b) (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/995/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:56:23.869241+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."
}