{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment to regulation 14 (public information and general provisions about short-term pollution)",
  "text": "In regulation 14—\n(a) in paragraph (2)(a)(iv)—\n(i) omit “identity and”;\n(ii) for “any person” substitute “the appropriate agency”;\n(b) for paragraph (4), substitute—\n“(4) In the event of short-term pollution, the appropriate agency may, where the appropriate agency considers it necessary, take one additional sample as soon as reasonably practicable after the pollution incident is presumed to have ended, to verify that it has ended.”;\n(c) for paragraph (5), substitute—\n“(5) The appropriate agency may disregard samples taken during short-term pollution from the set of bathing water quality data for the bathing water, and—\n(a) after the end of short-term pollution and before the end of the bathing season, the appropriate agency must, where necessary, take additional samples to ensure that it has the minimum number required for the bathing water for the bathing season;\n(b) where the appropriate agency expects to have the minimum number of samples required for the bathing water for the bathing season, the appropriate agency may take additional samples to replace those disregarded due to the short-term pollution, where the appropriate agency considers appropriate.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 21.11.2025 for E., see reg. 1(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}