{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-of-bathing-water-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/231",
  "legislation_title": "The Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-of-bathing-water-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Co-operation on transboundary waters",
  "text": "(1) Where a river basin gives rise to transboundary impacts on bathing water quality, the Department shall notify the competent authorities in the Republic of Ireland of the relevant facts.\n(2) The Department, in consultation with the competent authorities in the Republic of Ireland, shall organise the concertation necessary to identify the sources in question and the measures to be taken to protect the waters that are affected.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in operation at 24.3.2012, see reg. 1(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/231/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:36:19.371496+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."
}