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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-groundwater-england-and-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-groundwater-england-and-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111480816",
  "legislation_title": "The Groundwater (England and Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-groundwater-england-and-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Granting a permit",
  "text": "The Agency, the Secretary of State and Welsh Ministers must, for the purposes of implementing—\n(a) Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy), or\n(b) Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration),\ncomply with these Regulations in exercising their functions in relation to permits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L327, 22.12.2000, p. 1 as last amended by Directive 2008/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 348, 24.12.2008, p. 84)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L372, 27.12.2006, p. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111480816/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:06.448623+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."
}