{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-mineral-water-spring-water-and-bottled-drinking-water-amendment-england-regulations-2003/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-mineral-water-spring-water-and-bottled-drinking-water-amendment-england-regulations-2003/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/666",
  "legislation_title": "The Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-mineral-water-spring-water-and-bottled-drinking-water-amendment-england-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water Regulations 1999",
  "text": "In regulation 18 (defences)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(b) if the water was intended for export to an EEA State, that—\n(i) in the case of water bottled in a bottle marked or labelled with the term “spring water”—\n(A) where the export was to take place before 25th December 2003, the legislation complies with the provisions of Directive 80/777 and whichever of Directives 80/778 and 98/83 is applicable in the State concerned, and\n(B) where the export was to take place on or after that date, the legislation complies with the provisions of Directives 80/777 and 98/83, and\n(ii) in the case of bottled drinking water—\n(A) where the export was to take place before 25th December 2003, the legislation complies with the provisions of whichever of Directives 80/778 and 98/83 is applicable in the State concerned, and\n(B) where the export was to take place on or after that date, the legislation complies with the provisions of Directive 98/83.”;\n(b) in paragraph (2)(a), after the word “or” there shall be inserted the words “the bottle in which it was bottled was marked or”; and\n(c) in paragraph (3), before the words “marked or labelled”, wherever they appear, there shall be inserted the words “bottled in a bottle”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/666/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:29:07.702038+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."
}