Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. No. 218 of 2012)

S T A T U T O R Y R U L E S O F N O R T H E R N I R E L A N D 2012 No. 218 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 Made - - - - 25th May 2012 Coming into operation - 1st June 2012 The Department of the Environment being a Department designated(a) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(b) in relation to the environment, acting in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section, makes the following Regulations. Citation and commencement 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2012. Interpretation 2. The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(c) applies to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly. Amendments to the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 3. For Schedule 1 to the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(d) substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations. Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 25th May 2012 Wesley Shannon A senior officer of the Department of the Environment (a) S.I. 2008/301 (b) 1972 c.68 (c) 1954 c.33 (N.I.) (d) S.R. 2008 No. 231 2 SCHEDULE Regulation 3 Schedule substituted for Schedule 1 to the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 “SCHEDULE 1 Regulation 3 BATHING WATERS 1) Ballycastle 2) Ballygally 3) Ballyholme 4) Ballywalter 5) Benone (Magilligan) 6) Brown’s Bay 7) Carnlough 8) Castlerock 9) Cranfield (Cranfield Bay) 10) Crawfordsburn 11) Downhill 12) Groomsport 13) Helen’s Bay 14) Millisle 15) Murlough Bay 16) Newcastle 17) Portballintrae (Salmon Rock) 18) Portrush (Curran Strand) 19) Portrush Mill Strand) 20) Portstewart 21) Tyrella 22) Waterfoot 23) Whiterocks” 3 EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Order) These Regulations amend Schedule 1 of the Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 to remove Cranfield (Nicholson’s Strand) from the list of bathing waters set out in the Schedule to those Regulations. Crown copyright 2012 Printed in the UK by The Stationery Office Limited under the authority and superintendence of Carol Tullo, Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office being the Government Printer for Northern Ireland and the Officer appointed to print Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly. £4.00 N5418 06/2012 425418T 19585 9 780337 988103 ISBN 978-0-337-98810-3 S T A T U T O R Y R U L E S O F N O R T H E R N I R E L A N D 2012 No. 218 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012