# The Water Environment (Floods Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009, Regulation 4: General duties

Extent: N.I.

(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.
(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).
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/376/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-floods-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-4
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