Regulation 4 General dutiesI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

A Northern Ireland department, each district council, each water undertaker, each sewerage undertaker, each implementation body and the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board shall exercise their relevant functions in a manner which secures compliance with the requirements of F1these Regulations.

(2)

In exercising its relevant functions, the Department shall ensure that the implementation of the requirements of F2these Regulations is co-ordinated between the bodies mentioned in paragraph (1).

(3)

In this regulation “relevant functions” means functions under these Regulations and, so far as material—

(a)

in the case of a district council, under every statutory provision conferring functions on a district council;

(b)

in any other case, under the statutory provisions listed in Schedule 1.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Water and Floods (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/32), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Water and Floods (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/32), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 4 in operation at 14.12.2009, see reg. 1(1)