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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/schedule-5/part-1/paragraph-5",
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  "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": "schedule/5/part/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Article 4 is to be read as if—\n(a) in paragraph 1—\n(i) in point (a)(iv), for “Article 16(1) and (8)” there were substituted “ the EQS Directive ”;\n(ii) in point b (iii), for “paragraphs 2, 4 and 5 of Article 17” there were substituted “ the Groundwater Directive ”;\n(b) in paragraph 8, the reference to “other Community environmental legislation” were a reference to assimilated law relating to the environment.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Water (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/112), regs. 1(1), 12(12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 Pt. 1 para. 5(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(g)(iii)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/81/schedule/5/part/1/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}