{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2025/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2025/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1129",
  "legislation_title": "The Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WATER RESOURCES, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 27th October 2025\nLaid before Parliament 28th October 2025\nLaid before Senedd Cymru 28th October 2025\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)\nThe Secretary of State in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales, make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of, and paragraph 20(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (“the Act”).\nThe Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers have, in accordance with section 2(4) of the Act, consulted—\n(a) the Environment Agency,\n(b) the Natural Resources Body for Wales,\n(c) such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses as they consider appropriate, and\n(d) such other bodies or persons as they consider appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 24. Section 2 was amended by S.I. 2013/755 (W. 90); there are other amending instruments but none is relevant. See paragraph 20(2) of Schedule 1 for the definition of “the relevant directives”. Functions of the Secretary of State, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales, except in relation to offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation, by virtue of article 3(1) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1958). Functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1129/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:10:22.816413+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}