The Air Quality (Amendment, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018
The Air Quality (Amendment, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018
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Type: NI Statutory Rule
Year: 2018
Number: 215
Made: 2018-12-19
Coming into force: 2019-01-17
Last ingested: 2026-06-12 from legislation.gov.uk.
Explanatory note
Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.
Regulation 2 makes technical updating amendments to the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 by substituting new references for the repealed Council Directive 96/61/EC .
Regulation 3 makes amendments to The Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, by inserting an updated reference to Directive 2008/98/EC .
Regulation 4 implements those articles of the European Union Directive on Cleaner Air for Europe ( Directive 2008/50/EC , O.J. No. L152, 11.6.2008, p.1), which set out differing treatment and actions relating to exceedances when these are due to natural factors (see Article 20), or to winter-sanding or salting of roads (see Article 21).
Further information on these Regulations is available from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Klondyke Building, 1 Cromac Avenue, Gasworks Business Park, Belfast, BT7 2JA.
Other NISRs from 2018
- The Carcase Classification and Price Reporting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 — NISR 2018/216
- The Occupational Pension Schemes (Governance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 — NISR 2018/214
- The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 — NISR 2018/213