{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-regulations-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-regulations-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1675",
  "legislation_title": "The Bathing Water Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Monitoring calendar",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate agency must—\n(a) establish a monitoring calendar for every bathing water before the start of every bathing season; and\n(b) take samples at every bathing water no later than four days after the date specified in the monitoring calendar.\n(2) In relation to any abnormal situation, the appropriate agency—\n(a) may suspend the monitoring calendar for the duration of the situation;\n(b) after the end of the situation and before the end of the bathing season must, where necessary, take sufficient additional samples to ensure that it has the minimum number required for the bathing water for the bathing season;\n(c) may, where the appropriate agency expects to have the minimum number of samples required for the bathing water for the bathing season, take additional samples to replace those disregarded due to the suspension, where the appropriate agency considers appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 2(2) substituted (21.11.2025 for E., 1.4.2026 for W.) by The Bathing Water (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1129), regs. 1(2)(3), 11(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1675/schedule/4/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}