{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/254",
  "legislation_title": "Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Measures to limit the input of non-hazardous pollutants into groundwater",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall, in granting an authorisation, take all necessary measures to limit the input of non-hazardous pollutants into groundwater so as to ensure that such inputs do not cause pollution in groundwater.\n(2) Each programme of measures established under regulation 12 of the 2017 Regulations must include measures to limit the input of non-hazardous pollutants into groundwater.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 substituted (31.7.2014) by The Groundwater (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/208), regs. 1, 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 15(2) substituted (with application in accordance with regs. 1(b), 4(1) of the amending Rule) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/81), reg. 1(a), Sch. 4 para. 4(9) (with reg. 37)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/208",
      "affecting_title": "The Groundwater (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/81",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/254/regulation/15",
    "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."
}