{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-scotland-regulations-2008/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-scotland-regulations-2008/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/170",
  "legislation_title": "The Bathing Waters (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-waters-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Monitoring",
  "text": "(1) SEPA must–\n(a) take and analyse at least 4 samples from every bathing water for every bathing season except where subparagraph (2) or (3) applies;\n(b) take the first such sample for every bathing season shortly before the start of that season; and\n(c) take samples from every bathing water throughout the bathing season at regular intervals and, except where the bathing water is situated in a region subject to special geographical constraints, such intervals must not exceed one month.\n(2) Where the bathing season for a particular bathing water does not exceed 8 weeks, SEPA needs to take and analyse only 3 samples.\n(3) Where a bathing water is situated in a region subject to special geographical constraints, SEPA needs to take and analyse only 3 samples.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/170/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}