{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/254",
  "legislation_title": "Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Discharge of a hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence to cause or knowingly permit the discharge of any hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant in circumstances that might lead to an indirect input of that hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant into groundwater unless it is carried out under and in accordance with an authorisation granted by the Department under this regulation.\n(2) paragraph (1) does not apply to—\n(a) a discharge that requires a discharge consent within the meaning of Article 7A of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;\n(b) a disposal licence under Article 7 of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;\n(c) a licence granted under Part II of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985;\n(d) an authorisation granted under the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;\n(e) a waste management licence granted under the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;\n(f) a permit granted under regulations under Article 4 of the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002;\n(g) Article 226 of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006;\n(h) any statutory order which expressly confers power to discharge effluent into water;\n(i) any prescribed statutory provision;\n(j) a disposal that requires an authorisation under section 13 of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993; or\n(k) the keeping or use of mobile radioactive apparatus that requires a registration under section 10 of that Act.\n(3) An operator of a road drain does not commit an offence under this regulation unless the Department has served a notice on that person under regulation 25 in relation to that discharge, and the person has failed to comply with that notice.\n(4) In this regulation a “road drain” means a drain which the Department is entitled to keep open by virtue of Article 45 of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 19(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(10) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in operation at 10.8.2009, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1049 (N.I.19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c.48"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/3153 (N.I.7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/3160 (N.I.15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word 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/19",
    "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."
}