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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-england-and-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-24",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/407",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017",
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  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Implementation of programmes of measures",
  "text": "�??\n(1) The appropriate authority or, in the exercise of its relevant functions, the appropriate agency must ensure that the implementation of measures required under regulations 20 and 22 does not lead�??\n(a) to increased pollution of marine waters;\n(b) directly or indirectly to increased pollution of surface waters.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the extent that compliance with it would result in increased pollution of the environment as a whole.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/407/regulation/24",
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  },
  "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."
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