{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-3.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": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 2 (interpretation)",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1)—\n(a) for the definition of “bathing season”, substitute—\n““bathing season” , in relation to a bathing water, means the bathing season specified in, or (as the case may be) determined under regulation 4(1);”;\n(b) after the definition of “England”, insert—\n““environmental protection measures” means any measures to—\n(a) protect the natural environment from the effects of human activity;\n(b) protect people from the effects of human activity on the natural environment;\n(c) maintain, restore or enhance the natural environment;\n(d) monitor, assess, consider, advise or report on any of the measures referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c);”;\n(c) in the definition of “permanent advice against bathing”, for “, in relation to at least one whole bathing season, under regulation 13” substitute “by the appropriate agency under regulation 13(2) in relation to at least one upcoming bathing season that would have been applicable to that former bathing water”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(a)(c) in force at 21.11.2025 for E., see reg. 1(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(b) in force at 15.5.2026 for E., see reg. 1(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.4.2026 for W., see reg. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1129/regulation/3",
    "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."
}