{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-regulations-2013/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-regulations-2013/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1675",
  "legislation_title": "The Bathing Water Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Bathing water profiles",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate agency must—\n(a) ensure that prior to the start of each bathing season, it has established a bathing water profile for every bathing water; and\n(b) keep every bathing water profile under review.\n(2) The appropriate agency may combine the bathing water profiles of contiguous bathing waters.\n(3) When complying with paragraph (1), the appropriate agency must take into account the data which it has obtained or analysed under—\n(a) the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017;\n(b) the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003 ; or\n(c) the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004 .\n(4) Schedule 3 (bathing water profiles) has effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(3)(a) substituted (10.4.2017) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/407), reg. 1(a), Sch. 4 para. 4(3) (with reg. 1(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/3245."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/99. This instrument is amended by regulation 19(4) of these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1675/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:48:40.853645+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."
}