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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-fishlife-classification-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-fishlife-classification-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2471",
  "legislation_title": "The Surface Waters (Fishlife) (Classification) (Scotland) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-fishlife-classification-scotland-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Modification of section 30C of the Control of Pollution Act 1974",
  "text": "Section 30C of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 (water quality objectives) shall have effect–\n(a) as if it imposed a duty on the Secretary of State to exercise the powers conferred on him by that section to classify under these Regulations such waters as are appropriate for the purposes of giving effect to Directive 78/659/EEC in Scotland; and\n(b) in relation to the performance of that duty, as if subsections (4) and (5) of that section were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "c.40; section 30C was inserted by section 169 and paragraph 4 of Schedule 23 to the Water Act 1989 (c. 15) and was amended by section 120 and paragraph 29(2) and (4) of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/178",
      "affecting_title": "The Surface Waters (Fishlife) (Classification) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2471/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:49:45.874396+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."
}