PART 3 N.I.Water intended to be sold as “spring water”

Exploitation of springs and bottling of water intended to be labelled and sold as “spring water” N.I.

14.—(1) A person must not bottle water intended to be labelled and sold as “spring water” unless—

(a) the water has been extracted from a spring and is bottled at source;

(b) the water is intended for human consumption in its natural state;

(c) the requirements of Schedule 4 are met; and

(d) the water meets the requirements of Schedule 7.

(2) Where it is found during exploitation that water from a spring is polluted and that bottling of the water would contravene paragraphs 6, 7 or 8 of Schedule 4, a person must not exploit the spring from which the water is extracted until the cause of the pollution is eradicated and the bottling of the water would comply with those paragraphs.