{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-of-bathing-water-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-of-bathing-water-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-3.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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Frequency of monitoring",
  "text": "The Department shall —\n(a) take and analyse at least four samples from every bathing water during every bathing season;\n(b) take the first such sample for every bathing season shortly before the start of that season; and\n(c) take samples from every bathing water throughout the bathing season at regular intervals not exceeding one month.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}