{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/254",
  "legislation_title": "Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Review of existing disposal licences and existing resolutions of a District Council",
  "text": "The Department shall review all existing disposal licences and all existing resolutions which authorise—\n(a) any disposal of a hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant which might lead to an indirect discharge into groundwater of such a substance or pollutant; or\n(b) a direct discharge into groundwater of a hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant;\nand shall, so far as may be necessary to give effect to the Directive in exercise of its powers under Articles 47(2) and (3) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 apply Articles 10 and 12 of that Order (variation and revocation, etc. of licences) in relation to any such authorisation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13 substituted (24.12.2018) by The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/200), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in operation at 10.8.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2018/200",
      "affecting_title": "The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/254/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:31:10.101020+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."
}