{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-fishlife-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-fishlife-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/488",
  "legislation_title": "The Surface Waters (Fishlife) (Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-fishlife-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Compliance with standards",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), any waters classified under these Regulations shall be treated in relation to any period of 12 months as complying with any standard for any parameter adopted by the Department for those waters as a result of regulation 5 if in that period in relation to those waters—\n(a) in the case of the parameter for BOD5, non-ionized ammonia, total ammonium, nitrites or dissolved copper, 95 per cent of of the samples taken for that parameter in accordance with regulation 7 comply with the standard;\n(b) in the case of the parameter for dissolved oxygen, the percentages specified in Schedule 2 of samples taken for that parameter in accordance with regulation 7 comply with the standard;\n(c) in the case of the parameter for suspended solids, the average concentration of samples taken comply with the standard.\n(2) When the frequency of sampling is lower than 1 sample per month for any parameter mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) in relation to any waters classified under these Regulations, 100 per cent of samples taken for each of those parameters in accordance with regulation 7 in relation to those waters must comply if it is to be treated as meeting the standard adopted as a result of regulation 5.\n(3) Non-compliant samples shall be ignored for the purposes of paragraph (1) if they are the result of a flood or any other natural disaster.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 5.1.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/488",
      "affecting_title": "The Surface Waters (Fishlife) (Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/488/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:26:20.518764+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."
}