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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-classification-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1597",
  "legislation_title": "The Bathing Waters (Classification) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-classification-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Classification of waters",
  "text": "–\n(1) A system employing the classification BW1 is prescribed as a system of classification applying to relevant territorial waters, coastal waters and inland waters which are bathing waters.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above “bathing waters” are waters which are bathing water within the meaning of Article 1.2 of Council Directive 76/160/EECand other waters which are used for bathing.\n(3) Schedules 1, 2 and 3 (which specify criteria for classification BW1, impose sampling requirements and set out quality standards) shall have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L 31/1, 5.2.76, p.1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for reg. 2(3)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1097",
      "affecting_title": "The Bathing Water Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1675",
      "affecting_title": "The Bathing Water Regulations 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1238",
      "affecting_title": "The Bathing Waters (Classification) (England) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1597/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:41:28.374538+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."
}