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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-regulations-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1675",
  "legislation_title": "The Bathing Water Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "General provisions in relation to rules or reference methods of analysis",
  "text": "The appropriate agency—\n(a) must have regard to the guidelines on the handling of samples for microbiological analyses given in Annex V to the Bathing Water Directive; and\n(b) may use such rules or reference methods of analysis as it considers are substantively equivalent to those specified in this Schedule, where the appropriate agency has notified the appropriate Minister giving details of such rules and methods and their equivalence.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1675/schedule/4/paragraph/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."
}