In the quarter 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2024, the department screened the policies listed below for likely impact on equality of opportunity and good relations.
The associated screening forms, which set out the details of each policy and the decision reached are available at these links:
- Driver & Vehicle Agency: MOT vehicle test booking
- Accessible Parking Bays – On-line Application Process
- DfI Rivers – Technical Guidance Note 23 – Watercourse Maintenance Manual
- The Motor Vehicles (Authorised Weight) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
- A4 Enniskillen Southern Bypass scheme
- Proposed new Water, Flooding, and Sustainable Drainage legislation – powers for the Department to amend, update or revoke the Drainage (EIA) Regulations (NI) 2017 and the Water Environment (Floods Directive) Regulations (NI) 2009
- Proposed new Water, Flooding, and Sustainable Drainage legislation, New Powers to Repair Drainage Misconnections
- Provide DfI with power to encourage developers to use SuDS drainage in new developments
- Proposed new Water, Flooding, and Sustainable Drainage legislation – providing powers for the Department for Infrastructure to establish a substantive Homeowner Flood Protection Grant Scheme (HFPGS)
- Providing NI Water, powers to register Article 161 adoption agreements in the Statutory Charges Register
- Providing NI Water, powers to adopt certain private drainage infrastructure constructed pre-1973
- Proposed new Water, Flooding, and Sustainable Drainage legislation – Extended Hosepipe Ban powers
- Cookstown Bypass scheme