{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-of-bathing-water-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-of-bathing-water-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Bathing water profiles",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall, in relation to every bathing water, in accordance with Schedule 2—\n(a) if it has not already done so, establish a bathing water profile before the start of the bathing season; and\n(b) keep every bathing water profile under review.\n(2) The Department may combine the bathing water profiles of contiguous bathing waters.\n(3) When complying with paragraph (1), the Department shall take into account the data which it has obtained or analysed under—\n(a) The Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993; and\n(b) The Water Framework Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 7(1) substituted (26.6.2013) by The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/151), regs. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in operation at 24.3.2011, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1993 No. 205"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/231/regulation/7",
    "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."
}