{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-3.json",
  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) An environmental impact assessment shall be carried out in accordance with these Regulations in relation to a relevant project.\n(2) A project is a relevant project if –\n(a) it is a water management project for agriculture, including an irrigation project; and\n(b) it would be likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue, inter alia, of its nature, size or location.\n(3) A project is not a relevant project if it –\n(a) constitutes development to which the Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 apply;\n(b) constitutes the carrying out of drainage works within the meaning of the Drainage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001; or\n(c) involves the abstraction, diversion or impoundment of less than 200 cubic metres of water in any period of 24 hours.",
  "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": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 9.3.2005, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1999 No. 73"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2001 No. 394"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/32/regulation/3",
    "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."
}