{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/61",
  "legislation_title": "The Surface Waters (Shellfish) (Classification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "European Communities\nWater And Sewerage\nMade 23rd February 2009\nComing into operation 27th March 2009\nThe Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 5 and 36 of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999, and, being a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked with savings (with application in accordance with reg. 1(b), 4(1) of the amending Rule) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/81), reg. 36 (with reg. 37)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 5 of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/662 (N.I. 6) replaced Article 4B of the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (1972 c. 5 (N.I.)) (as amended by Article 16 of the Water and Sewerage Services (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/3165 (N.I. 16))."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 (c. 68)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/61/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:10.055353+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."
}