These Regulations prescribe the procedure to be followed in relation to applications for, or the variation of, consents under Part II of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999. Regulation 3 provides for the advertising of applications for discharge consents, or the variation of a consent in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the consent is issued and the content of such advertisement. Regulation 4 provides for the timing of the publication of such advertisements. Regulation 5 provides for exemptions from advertising. Regulation 6 and the Schedule to the Regulations prescribe the procedure to be followed when a discharge consent is granted, without an application, under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Water Order. The Regulations also prescribe the particulars which are to be entered in water pollution control registers which are maintained by the Department of the Environment under Article 30 of the Water Order. Regulation 7 sets out the particulars which are to be entered in the water pollution control registers. Regulation 8 prescribes when entries are to be made on, require or permit certain particulars to be removed from and deal with the indexing of, the registers. Regulation 9 deals with the period after which certain information may be removed from the registers.
Control of Pollution (Applications and Registers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. No. 284 of 2002).