{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2014/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Groundwater (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2",
  "text": "In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) after the definition of “authorisation” insert—\n““background level” means the concentration of a substance or the value of an indicator in a body of groundwater corresponding to no, or only very minor, anthropogenic alterations to undisturbed conditions;\n“baseline level” means the average value measured at least during the reference years 2007 and 2008 on the basis of monitoring in accordance with a programme prepared under regulation 9 of The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003;”;\n(ii) after the definition of “groundwater” insert—\n““groundwater quality standard” means an environmental quality standard expressed as the concentration of a particular pollutant, group of pollutants or indicator of pollution in groundwater, which should not be exceeded in order to protect human health and the environment;”;\n(iii) after the definition of “river basin district and international river basin districts” insert—\n““significant and sustained upward trend” means any statistically and environmentally significant increase of concentration of a pollutant, group of pollutants, or indicator of pollution in groundwater for which trend reversal is identified as being necessary in accordance with regulation 10;”;\n(iv) after the definition of “starting point” insert—\n““threshold value” means a groundwater quality standard established under regulation 8;”.\n(b) delete paragraph 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/208/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:05:59.130669+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."
}