The Natural Mineral Water, Spring Water and Bottled Drinking Water (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2007

Bottling of spring water and exploitation of spring water springsS

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10.—(1) No person shall cause any water to be bottled in a bottle marked or labelled with the description “spring water” unless that water–

(a)has been extracted from a spring;

(b)meets the requirements of Schedule 2; and

(c)meets the requirements of Schedule 4.

(2) No person shall cause any water which has been treated with ozone-enriched air to be bottled in a bottle marked or labelled spring water, unless that treatment is an authorised ozone-enriched air oxidation technique.

[F1(2A) No person shall cause any water which has been treated with activated alumina for removal of fluoride to be bottled in a bottle marked or labelled “spring water”, unless that treatment is an authorised activated alumina treatment.]

(3) Where it is found during exploitation that spring water is polluted and that bottling of the water would contravene paragraph 6, 7 or 8 of Schedule 4 no person shall 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.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 10 in force at 30.10.2007, see reg. 1(1)