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Introductory text

Northern Ireland

Environmental Protection

Made 6th February 2025

Coming into operation 1st April 2025

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 6(6) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997f1 and Article 4(1) and (3) of the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002f2 and now vested in itf3.

In accordance with Article 4(4) of the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has consulted—

  1. (a)

    district councils and such bodies or persons appearing to it to be representative of the interests of district councils as it considers appropriate;

  2. (b)

    such bodies or persons appearing to it to be representative of the interests of industry, agriculture and business as it considers appropriate; and

  3. (c)

    such other bodies or persons as it considers appropriate.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19).

f2

S.I. 2002/3153.

f3

The Department of the Environment was dissolved by Section 1(9) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 and, by virtue of Article 8(1)(c) of the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016, its functions for the purposes of these Regulations were transferred to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.