{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2",
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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": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.\n(2) In these Regulations –\n“agriculture” includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, livestock breeding or keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadowland, osier land, reed beds, market gardens and nursery grounds;\n...\n“Commission” means the Water Appeals Commission established under Article 7 of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973;\n...\n“consultation body” means a person likely to have an interest in a project by reason of his specific environmental responsibilities or hold any information relevant to a project;\n“the Department” means the Department of the Environment;\n“the Directive” means Council Directive 85/337/EEC, concerning the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC and Council Directive 2003/35/EC on providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment and amending with regard to public participation and access to justice Council Directives 85/337/EEC and 96/61/EC;\n“licence” means a licence granted under regulation 10 of the Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations (NI) 2006;\n“relevant project” has the meaning given by regulation 3.\n(3) Other expressions used both in these Regulations and in the Directive have the same meaning in these Regulations as they have in the Directive.",
  "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": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (1.2.2007) by virtue of The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/483), regs. 1, 3(2)(a) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) omitted (1.2.2007) by virtue of The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/483), regs. 1, 3(2)(b) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (1.2.2007) by The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/483), regs. 1, 3(2)(c) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(2) inserted (1.2.2007) by The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/483), regs. 1, 3(2)(d) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 9.3.2005, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/32/regulation/2",
    "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."
}