Regulation 3 EnforcementI1

Subject to paragraph (2) each district council shall, in its area, enforce and execute these Regulations and the Council Regulation.

The Department may, in relation to any case or to cases of a particular description, direct that the duty of a district council under paragraph (1) be discharged –

A district council or the Department may appoint as inspectors such persons as it or they consider necessary for the purpose of enforcing these Regulations and the Council Regulation.

Any appointment of an inspector under Article 11 of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991^f1 having effect at the coming into operation of these Regulations shall have effect as if it were an appointment of the inspector as an inspector by the Department for the purpose of these Regulations.