{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-and-impoundment-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-and-impoundment-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/482",
  "legislation_title": "Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-and-impoundment-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“authorisation” means an authorisation under regulation 5 or 10;\n“controlled activity” means—\n(a) the abstraction of water from underground strata or waterways; and\n(b) the construction, alteration or operation of any impounding works;\n“land” includes any works, plant or fixed machinery in, on or over land;\n“licence” means an authorisation granted under regulation 10;\n“operator” in relation to a controlled activity, means any person who carries on that activity;\n“permitted controlled activity” has the meaning given in regulation 5;\n“the Order” means the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999;\n“the 1995 Regulations” means the Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995;\n“the register” means the register maintained by the Department under Article 30 of the Order;\n“water environment” means—\n(a) any waterway,\n(b) any water contained in underground strata,\n(c) any underground strata themselves,\nor any flora or fauna dependent on any of them.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.2.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "SR 1995 No. 380; relevant amending Regulations are SR 2004 No. 435"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/482/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:44:02.886135+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."
}