{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 13 (additional management measures at “poor” bathing waters)",
  "text": "In regulation 13—\n(a) after paragraph (1), insert—\n“(1A) Where the appropriate agency classifies a bathing water as “poor” under regulation 11 for five consecutive years, the appropriate agency must, having consulted the local authority that controls the bathing water, advise the appropriate Minister on whether it would be feasible and not disproportionately expensive for the bathing water to achieve a classification of at least “sufficient” within a specified period.\n(1B) In this regulation the “specified period”, in relation to a bathing water, is the period of time which the appropriate agency advises the appropriate Minister to allow a bathing water to achieve a classification of at least “sufficient” under regulation 11.\n(1C) The period advised by the appropriate agency under paragraph (1B) must not exceed a period of five years beginning with the date on which the most recent classification under regulation 11 is published.”;\n(b) for paragraph (2)(a), substitute—\n“(a) the appropriate agency classifies the bathing water as “poor” under regulation 11 for five consecutive years and advises the appropriate Minister under paragraph (1A) that it would be—\n(i) infeasible or disproportionately expensive for the bathing water to achieve a classification of at least “sufficient” within a period of five years beginning with the date on which the most recent classification under regulation 11 is published, and the appropriate Minister accepts that advice; or\n(ii) feasible and not disproportionately expensive for the bathing water to achieve a classification of at least “sufficient” within the specified period—\n(aa) but the appropriate Minister rejects that advice; or\n(bb) the appropriate Minister accepts that advice, but the bathing water does not achieve a classification of at least “sufficient” before the end of the specified period; or”;\n(c) in paragraph (2)(b), at the beginning, insert “the appropriate agency has not classified the bathing water as “poor” under regulation 11 for five consecutive years but,”;\n(d) in paragraph (4), in the words before sub-paragraph (a), omit “during the bathing season”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 21.11.2025 for E., see reg. 1(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}