{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-floods-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-floods-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Areas of significant flood risk",
  "text": "(1) On the basis of a preliminary flood risk assessment but subject to paragraph (2), the Department shall—\n(a) for the river basin district; and\n(b) for the part of each international river basin district lying within Northern Ireland,\nidentify any area for which it concludes that potential significant flood risks exist or might be considered likely to occur.\n(2) The identification under paragraph (1) of any area within a part of an international river basin district lying within Northern Ireland shall be co-ordinated with the relevant competent authority in the Republic of Ireland.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}