{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/81",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Environmental objectives: application of regulations 15 to 19",
  "text": "Regulations 15 to 19 must be applied in a way that—\n(a) does not permanently exclude or compromise the achievement of the environmental objectives set in relation to any other body of water within the same river basin district or part of each international river basin district falling within Northern Ireland;\n(b) is consistent with any other assimilated law;\n(c) guarantees at least the same level of protection (for bodies of water) as the EU instruments repealed by Article 22 of the Directive.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 14(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Water (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/112), regs. 1(1), 12(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 14(b) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 10 para. 27(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/81/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:52:40.058826+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."
}