{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-strategy-regulations-2010/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-strategy-regulations-2010/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/1627",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Strategy Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-strategy-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Relationship with Water Framework Directive",
  "text": "Nothing in these Regulations requires any action in coastal waters in so far as the objectives of the Directive are achieved by any enactment implementing the Water Framework Directive or by any provision of assimilated law other than these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marine Environment (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1399), regs. 1, 3(8); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 16 substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 20(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1627/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:38:37.391729+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."
}