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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2470",
  "legislation_title": "The Surface Waters (Shellfish) (Classification) (Scotland) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-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 under that section to classify under these Regulations such waters as are appropriate for the purpose of giving effect to Directive 79/923/EEC in relation to waters in or adjacent to 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": "1974 c. 40; section 30C was inserted by section 69 and paragraph 14 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/2007/427",
      "affecting_title": "The Surface Waters (Shellfish) (Classification) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2470/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:49:46.860494+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."
}