{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-floods-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-floods-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/376",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (Floods Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-floods-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "General duties",
  "text": "(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 these Regulations.\n(2) In exercising its relevant functions, the Department shall ensure that the implementation of the requirements of these Regulations is co-ordinated between the bodies mentioned in paragraph (1).\n(3) In this regulation “relevant functions” means functions under these Regulations and, so far as material—\n(a) in the case of a district council, under every statutory provision conferring functions on a district council;\n(b) in any other case, under the statutory provisions listed in Schedule 1.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 14.12.2009, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/376/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:55.053159+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."
}