{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-of-bathing-water-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-of-bathing-water-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-1.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": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Location of monitoring point",
  "text": "(1) Where the Department takes samples in compliance with this Part it shall do so from the monitoring point situated at each bathing water.\n(2) The Department shall—\n(a) locate the monitoring point at every bathing water where—\n(i) most bathers are expected; or\n(ii) the bathing water profile indicates that the greatest risk of pollution is expected; and\n(b) where possible, take samples 30 centimetres below the water’s surface and in water that is at least one metre deep.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 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/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}