S.I. No. 230/1996:

QUALITY OF BATHING WATERS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1996

QUALITY OF BATHING WATERS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1996

The Minister for the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 30 of the Local Government (Water Pollution) Act, 1977 (No. 1 of 1977) and by section 26 of that Act as amended by the Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Act, 1990 (No. 21 of 1990), hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Quality of Bathing Waters (Amendment) Regulations, 1996.

2. The Quality of Bathing Waters Regulations, 1992 ( S.I. No. 155 of 1992 ) are hereby amended --

(a) by the substitution for sub-article (9) of article 4 of the following sub-article:

"(9) Results of sampling carried out each year under this article and reports on compliance with the standards specified in the Second Schedule shall be supplied by the local authority to the Environmental Protection Agency not later than the 31st day of October in the year to which they relate in such manner as the Agency shall direct.", and

(b) by the deletion of the First Schedule thereof (as substituted by the Quality of Bathing Waters (Amendment) Regulations, 1994 ( S.I. No. 145 of 1994 ) ) and the substitution therefor of the following Schedule:

SCHEDULE

BATHING AREAS

GIVEN under the Official Seal

of the Minister for the Environment

this 31st day of July, 1996.

Brendan Howlin

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Minister for the Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Quality of Bathing Waters Regulations, 1992 which give effect to Council Directive No. 76/160/EEC of 8 December, 1975 (O.J. No. L31/1, 5 February, 1976) concerning the quality of bathing water. The effect of the amendments is to apply the water quality standards, sampling programmes and pollution prevention provisions of the 1992 Regulations to an additional 8 bathing areas, bringing the total number of bathing areas covered by the Regulations to 124. Local authorities will be required to submit results of their bathing water sampling programmes to the Environmental 'Protection Agency instead of to the Minister, in such manner as directed by the Agency.