Common use of Department for Regional Development Clause in Contracts

Department for Regional Development. The Minister for Regional Development has overall policy and legislative responsibility for water and sewerage services (responsibility for environmental policy matters lies, principally, with the Minister for the Department of the Environment). The Department is also the shareholder of NI Water. The Regulator is the independent economic regulator of the water and sewerage industry in Northern Ireland. The Regulator is responsible for regulating water and sewerage undertakers, acting independently of the industry, Government and other stakeholders, while working within the Government policy framework.