The Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 PRELIMINARY

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 GENERAL

    1. 3.Identification of bathing waters

    2. 4.Length of bathing season

    3. 5.General duties

    4. 6.Public participation

    5. 7.Bathing water profiles

  4. PART 3 MONITORING OF BATHING WATERS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

    1. 8.Monitoring

    2. 9.Public information: duties of bathing water operator

    3. 10.Public information: duties of the Department

  5. PART 4 BATHING WATER ASSESSMENT AND CLASSIFICATION

    1. 11.Assessment

    2. 12.Classification

  6. PART 5 MANAGEMENT OF BATHING WATERS

    1. 13.Management measures at bathing waters subject to pollution incidents

    2. 14.Additional management measures at “poor” bathing waters

    3. 15.Additional management measures at bathing waters likely to be subject to incidents of short-term pollution

  7. PART 6 GENERAL PROVISIONS

    1. 16.Notice requiring bathing water operator to comply with the Regulations

    2. 17.Consequences of not complying with a notice under regulation 16

    3. 18.Enforcement powers

    4. 19.Power to obtain information

    5. 20.Co-operation on transboundary waters

  8. PART 7 REVOCATION

    1. 21.Revocation

  9. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      BATHING WATERS

      1. 1.Ballycastle

      2. 2.Ballygally

      3. 3.Ballyholme

      4. 4.Ballywalter

      5. 5.Benone (Magilligan)

      6. 6.Brown’s Bay

      7. 7.Carnlough

      8. 8.Castlerock

      9. 9.Cranfield (Cranfield Bay)

      10. 10.Cranfield (Nicholson’s Strand)

      11. 11.Crawfordsburn

      12. 12.Downhill

      13. 13.Groomsport

      14. 14.Helen’s Bay

      15. 15.Millisle

      16. 16.Murlough Bay

      17. 17.Newcastle

      18. 18.Portballintrae (Salmon Rock)

      19. 19.Portrush (Curran Strand)

      20. 20.Portrush (Mill Strand)

      21. 21.Portstewart

      22. 22.Tyrella

      23. 23.Waterfoot

      24. 24.Whiterocks

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      BATHING WATER PROFILES

      1. 1.Contents

      2. 2.Review

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      MONITORING

      1. PART 1 INTESTINAL ENTEROCOCCI AND ESCHERICHIA COLI

        1. 1.Location of monitoring point

        2. 2.Monitoring calendar

        3. 3.Frequency of monitoring

        4. 4.Sampling equipment

        5. 5.Storage and transport of samples before analysis

        6. 6.Reference methods of analysis

        7. 7.Short-term pollution

      2. PART 2 CYANOBACTERIA

        1. 8.Where any bathing water profile indicates a potential for cyanobacterial...

      3. PART 3 MACRO-ALGAE AND MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON

        1. 9.Where any bathing water profile indicates a tendency for proliferation...

      4. PART 4 OTHER POLLUTION

        1. 10.(1) The Department shall establish a visual monitoring programme at...

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      STANDARDS

      1. 1.The Department shall use the following standards for classification— Standards...

      2. 2.Methodology

      3. 3.Classification

  11. Explanatory Note