The Air Quality Limit Values Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
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The Air Quality Limit Values Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONMade8 th March 2002Coming into operation1 st May 2002The Department of the Environment, being a Department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the control of pollution in ambient air, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:Citation and commencement1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Quality Limit Values Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 1 st May 2002.Definitions and interpretation2.—(1) In these Regulations—“agglomeration” means a zone with a population concentration in excess of 250 ,000 inhabitants or, where the population concentration is 250 ,000 inhabitants or less, a population density per km2 for which the Department considers that the need for ambient air to be assessed or managed is justified;“alert threshold” has the meaning given by regulation 8(2);“ambient air” means outdoor air in the troposphere, excluding work places;“assessment” means any method used to measure, calculate, predict or estimate the level of a relevant pollutant in the ambient air;“fixed measurements” means measurements taken at fixed sites either continuously or by random sampling, the number of measurements being sufficiently large to enable the levels observed to be determined;“level” means the concentration of a relevant pollutant in ambient air;“limit value” has the meaning given in regulation 3(1);“lower assessment threshold” has the meaning given in regulation 5(5);“margin of tolerance” means the percentage of the limit value by which this value may be exceeded subject to the conditions laid down in Schedule 1;“natural events” ...See the full content of this document
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