# The Water (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, Regulation 13: The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Extent: N.I.

(1) The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/112/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-amendment-northern-ireland-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-13
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