{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-44.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/387",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Noise Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/44",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Implementation of action plans",
  "text": "(1) Where an action plan or a revision of an action plan—\n(a) has been adopted or approved pursuant to regulation 47; and\n(b) identifies a public authority as responsible for a particular action;\nthat public authority shall treat the action plan as its policy insofar as it relates to that action.\n(2) A public authority may depart from any policy mentioned in paragraph (1) if—\n(a) it provides—\n(i) the Department; and\n(ii) the competent authority responsible for the preparation of the action plan or the revision (if not the Department);\nwith written reasons showing reasonable grounds for departing from that policy; and\n(b) it publishes those reasons.\n(3) In this regulation “public authority” includes any person who exercises functions of a public nature.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 44 in operation at 20.10.2006 with application in accordance with, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/387/regulation/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:45:05.455423+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."
}