{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/254",
  "legislation_title": "Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Criteria and Procedure for assessing groundwater chemical status",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall apply the approach in the relevant provisions of the Directive and the Water Framework Directive when assessing groundwater chemical status.\n(2) The relevant provisions of the Directive for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—\n(a) Article 3(1)(a) and (b);\n(b) Article 3(6);\n(c) Article 4(1), 4(2) and 4(3);\n(d) Annex I;\n(e) Annex II; and\n(f) paragraphs 1 to 4 of Annex III.\n(3) The relevant provisions of the Water Framework Directive for the purposes of paragraph (1) are in section 2.3 of Annex V.\n(4) Diffuse sources of pollution having an impact on groundwater chemical status must be taken into account whenever technically possible.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 substituted (31.7.2014) by The Groundwater (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/208), regs. 1, 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 9(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(3) (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 9(3) 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(3) (with reg. 37)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/208",
      "affecting_title": "The Groundwater (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/81",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "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/9",
    "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."
}