Zone (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

L.N. 147 of 2012

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Borehole Drilling and Excavation Works within the Saturated

Zone (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 28(1) of the Malta

Resources Authority Act, the Minister for Resources and Rural

Affairs, after consultation with the Malta Resources Authority, has

made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Borehole Drilling and Citation.

Excavation Works within the Saturated Zone (Amendment)

Regulations, 2012 and these regulations shall be read and construed S.L. 423.32

as one with the Borehole Drilling and Excavation Works within the

Saturated Zone Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 6 of the principal Amends

regulation 6 of

regulations shall be amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

paragraph (d) thereof shall be substituted by the

following new paragraph

"any seawell; and"; and

(b) immediately after paragraph (d) thereof, there shall

be added the following new paragraph

"(e) any borehole to be drilled in

replacement of an irretrievably collapsed

borehole which was duly notified or

registered with the Authority as a

groundwater source used for agricultural

purposes under the Registration of

L.N. 120 of 1997.

Groundwater Sources Regulations, 1997,

or under the Notification of Groundwater

Sources Regulations.

Such replacement borehole is to be

drilled within the same "reference parcel"

(as defined under the Single Payment

Scheme Regulations) as the irretrievably

collapsed borehole

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Provided that such borehole shall be

certified to be "irretrievably collapsed" by

means of a signed declaration of a Perit

and be declared to be so "irretrievably

collapsed" by means of a declaration under

oath of the user of the irretrievably

collapsed groundwater source.".

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