{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-wales-regulations-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-wales-regulations-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2016/314",
  "legislation_title": "The Bathing Water (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-amendment-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Water Resources, Wales\nMade 8 March 2016\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 9 March 2016\nComing into force 30 March 2016\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to water resources and make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 2003/2901 for the designation conferred on the National Assembly for Wales. By virtue of sections 59 and 162 of, and paragraph 28 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), that designation is now conferred on the Welsh Ministers."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/314/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}