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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chemical-analysis-of-water-status-technical-specifications-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Chemical Analysis of Water Status (Technical Specifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
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  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Methods of analysis",
  "text": "The Department shall ensure that all methods of analysis, including laboratory, field and on-line methods, used for the purposes of regulation 3(c) are validated and documented in accordance with EN ISO/IEC-17025 standard or other equivalent standard accepted at international level.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 20.8.2011, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "ISO/IEC 17025:2005 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. Published by the International Organisation for Standardisation (www.iso.org)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/238/regulation/4",
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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."
}