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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Determination of application and notice of determination",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In determining an application for, or for the modification of, a licence for a relevant project the Department shall take into consideration the environmental statement, any further information provided, and any representations relating to the environmental effects of the project made to the Department in accordance with these Regulations.\n(3) Within twenty-eight days of the decision on the application, the Department shall publish on its website and in those newspapers in which a notice was published under regulation 8 a notice stating that the Department has granted or refused the application and stating a place and times where any person may inspect –\n(a) any relevant licence or modification thereof;\n(b) a document containing the relevant decision and the main reasons and considerations on which it is based; ...\n(c) a description, where necessary, of the main measures to avoid, reduce and if possible offset the major adverse effects of the project.\n(d) information about the public participation process; and\n(e) information regarding any right to challenge the validity of the decision and the procedures for doing so.",
  "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": "Reg. 9(1) 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(7)(a) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(2) substituted (1.2.2007) by The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/483), regs. 1, 3(7)(b) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(3) inserted (1.2.2007) by The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/483), regs. 1, 3(7)(c)(i) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(3)(a) substituted (1.2.2007) by The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/483), regs. 1, 3(7)(c)(ii) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 9(3)(b) 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(7)(c)(iii) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 9(3)(d)(e) added (1.2.2007) by The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/483), regs. 1, 3(7)(c)(iii) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in operation at 9.3.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/32/regulation/9",
    "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."
}