{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2002/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.\n(2) Regulation 1, 2, 25, 27, 28 and 36 shall come into operation on 28th November 2002.\n(3) Regulations 3 and 37 shall come into operation on 1st June 2003.\n(4) Regulations 4 and 17 to 24, paragraphs (4) and (5) of regulation 29, and paragraph (1) of regulation 38, shall come into operation on 25th December 2003.\n(5) All other provisions of these Regulations shall come into operation on 1st January 2004.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 28.11.2002, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/331/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:06:16.045012+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."
}