Environmental Better Regulations Bill
Bill Number: Bill 55/11-16
Bill Type: Executive
Bill Sponsor: Minister of the Environment
The Environmental Better Regulation Bill is:
A Bill to enable provision to be made for protecting and improving the environment; to provide for an integrated environmental permitting system; to provide for a review of powers of entry and associated powers and for the repeal or rewriting of such powers and for safeguards in relation to them; to provide for the repeal or rewriting of offences connected with the exercise of any such powers and for the preparation of a code of practice in connection with such exercise; to amend the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 to provide for a new method for authorising fuels for use in a smoke control area and for exempting fireplaces from the provisions of Article 17 of that Order; to amend the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 to remove the requirement on district councils to make an assessment of air quality under Article 13 of that Order; to amend the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 to transfer certain functions to the Department of the Environment from the Department for Regional Development; and for connected purposes.
| Bill Stage | Date Completed / Status | All Associated documents and links |
 First Stage |
22 June 2015 |
Bill as Introduced (HTM) (PDF) |
 Second Stage |
30 June 2015 | Official Report - 30 June 2015 |
 Committee Stage |
Extended to 27 November 2015 | |
 Consideration Stage |
11 January 2016 |
Notice of Amendments - 10 December 2015 Annotated Marshalled List of Amendments - 6 January 2016 Grouping List of Amendments - 6 January 2016 Bill - As Amended at Consideration Stage (HTM) (PDF) Explanatory and Financial Memorandum - As Amended at Consideration Stage (HTM) (PDF) |
 Further Consideration Stage |
26 January 2016 | Official Report - 26 January 2016 |
 Final Stage |
9 February 2016 | Official Report - 9 February 2016 |
 Royal Assent |
11 April 2016 | Environmental Better Regulation Act |
