Regulation 13 The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017I1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 M1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2, at the end insert—

“(3)
In these Regulations, a reference to a Directive or an Euratom Directive is to be read as if any reference in that Directive to one or more Member States in a provision imposing an obligation or conferring a discretion on a Member State or Member States were a reference to the Department.”.

(3)

In regulation 18—

(a)

omit paragraph (7);

(b)

in paragraph (8) omit “If the Department intends to grant a second authorisation, this must be communicated to the European Commission along with the results of the review.”;

(c)

For paragraph (10) substitute—

“(10)
If towards the end of the second period of authorisation the Department considers that sufficient progress has not been made the Department may grant a third period of authorisation but only if the Department considers that there are exceptional circumstances to justify doing so.”.

(4)

In Part 3 of Schedule 3, in paragraph 5(8), for “communicated to the European Commission” substitute “ published, in such manner as the Department considers appropriate ”.

(5)

In Part 1 of Schedule 4, omit paragraph 3(2).

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: S.R. 2017 No. 211.

Commencement

I1: Reg. 13 in force on IP completion day, see reg. 1(1) and 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1), see reg. 1(1)