{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/603",
  "legislation_title": "The Surface Waters (Abstraction for Drinking Water) (Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Modification of section 4C of the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972",
  "text": "Section 4C of the Water Act (Northern Ireland) shall have effect—\n(a) as if it imposed a duty on the Department to exercise the powers conferred on it by that section to classify under these Regulations such waters as are necessary to give effect to Directive 75/440/EEC; and\n(b) in relation to the performance of that duty, as if subsections (4), (5) and (7) of that section were omitted.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in operation at 20.2.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/603",
      "affecting_title": "The Surface Waters (Abstraction for Drinking Water) (Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/603/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:40.185100+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."
}