UK Offence Report

The Private Water Supplies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (revoked)

Northern Ireland Statutory Rule 2009 No. 413 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
11 December 2009
In force from
18 January 2010
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Energy, communications, water and utilities
Made under
European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations implement Council Directive 98/83/EC on the quality of water intended for human consumption (O.J. No. L330, 5.12.1998 p.32) in relation to private water supplies specified in regulation 3. Part 1 of the Regulations deals with water standards. Regulation 5 and Schedule 1 define wholesomeness. Regulation 7 places a duty on the Department of the Environment (“the Department”) to carry out a risk assessment of a private water supply, and Schedule 2 details the requirements of a risk assessment. Part 2 and Schedule 3 deal with monitoring private water supplies. Regulation 8 requires the Department to monitor private water supplies in accordance with that Part, and regulation 12 and Schedule 4 specify how samples must be taken and analysed. Regulation 13 and Schedule 5 require the Department to keep records. Under regulation 14 the Department shall publish information annually. Part 3 deals with what happens if the water supply is not wholesome or exceeds specified parameters. If the problem cannot be solved informally or through the granting of an authorisation, the Department shall serve a notice. Failure to comply with a notice served under regulation 19 is an offence, punishable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. A regulatory impact assessment of the costs and benefits and the effect that this instrument will have on the business and voluntary sector is available from the Department of the Environment, Calvert House, 23 Castle Place, Belfast BT1 1FY.

Offences created by this instrument

What Parliament said about it

Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

Check the source