PART 1 Water Standards

Requirement to carry out a risk assessment
7. (1) The Department shall carry out an assessment (“risk assessment”) of the potential risks associated with each private supply to which these Regulations apply (other than a supply to a single private dwelling) within eighteen months of the coming into operation of these Regulations, and subsequently every five years (or earlier if it considers that the existing risk assessment is inadequate).
(2) The Department shall carry out a risk assessment, where the private supply is a new supply and is to be used for the first time, within six months of that supply being identified as a private supply under Regulation 3.
(3) The Department may enter into an arrangement for any person to carry out a risk assessment on its behalf for the purposes of this regulation.
(4) The Department may provide for any such person to be reimbursed.
(5) The Department shall not enter into an arrangement under paragraph (3) unless it is satisfied that the task will be carried out promptly by a person competent to perform it.
(6) Schedule 2 (Requirements for Risk Assessment) has effect.