{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/32",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES\nWATER AND SEWERAGE\nMade 9th February 2005\nComing into operation 9th March 2005\nThe Department of the Environment, being a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of powers conferred upon it by that section and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked with savings (5.6.2017) by The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/85), regs. 1, 13(1)(a) (with reg. 13(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations: power to amend or revoke conferred (26.12.2023) by Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 164(3), 255(5), Sch. 14 Pt. 4 (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/32/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:54:29.660030+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."
}