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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-classification-scotland-regulations-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1609",
  "legislation_title": "The Bathing Waters (Classification) (Scotland) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-classification-scotland-regulations-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND\nMade 3rd July 1991\nLaid before Parliament 19th July 1991\nComing into force 9th August 1991\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 30B, 102(1), 104(1) and 105(1) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 and by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, being the Minister designated for the purposes of that subsection in relation to the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution of water, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 40; section 30B was inserted, as part of a substitution of a new Part II of the Act, by the Water Act 1989 (c. 15), Schedule 23, paragraph 4; section 104(1) was amended by the 1989 Act, Schedule 23, paragraph 7; section 105(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2393."
    }
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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."
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