{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-regulations-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3001",
  "legislation_title": "The Surface Waters (Abstraction for Drinking Water) (Classification) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Compliance with relevant limits",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, any waters classified under these Regulations shall be treated in any year as complying with the limit specified in Schedule 1 for the relevant class of waters in relation to a parameter if in that year—\n(a) 95 per cent of the samples taken in relation to those waters in accordance with regulation 5 comply with the limit;\n(b) none of the samples exceeds the limit by more than 50 per cent;\n(c) there is no associated danger to public health where any of the samples exceeds the limit; and\n(d) there have been no occasions on which consecutive samples so taken at statistically suitable intervals exceed the limit.\n(2) Non-compliant samples shall be ignored for the purposes of paragraph (1) above if they are the result of a flood, natural disaster or abnormal weather conditions.\n(3) Paragraph (1)(b) above shall not apply in the case of the limits specified in Schedule 1 in relation to temperature.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3001/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:11.165973+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."
}