{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-abstraction-for-drinking-water-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Compliance with relevant limits",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), any waters classified under these Regulations shall be treated in any year as complying with the limits specified in column I of Schedule 1 for waters of the relevant class in relation to a parameter if—\n(a) 95 per cent of the samples taken in relation to those waters in accordance with regulation 7 comply with the limits specified in column I of Schedule 1;\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) if they are the result of a flood, natural disaster or abnormal weather conditions.\n(3) Paragraph 1(b) shall not apply in the case of any standard adopted by the Department in relation to temperature.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}