{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/170",
  "legislation_title": "The Bathing Waters (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Management measures at bathing waters subject to short-term pollution",
  "text": "Where short-term pollution is predicted or present at a bathing water, SEPA must—\n(a) take such action as it considers necessary, whether under regulations relating to any controlled activity or under any other functions, to ensure that the short-term pollution is prevented, reduced or eliminated; and\n(b) take adequate measures, including surveillance, early warning systems and monitoring, with a view to a warning or bathing prohibition being issued, if necessary.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 substituted (2.10.2012) by The Bathing Waters (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/243), regs. 1, 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/170/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:07:15.175457+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."
}