Part III WATER SUPPLY
chapter III Quality and Sufficiency of Supplies
General obligations of undertakers
69 Regulations for preserving water quality.
(1)
The Secretary of State may by regulations require a water undertaker F1or a licensed water supplier to ensure that such steps are taken as may be prescribed for the purpose of securing compliance with section 68 above.
(2)
Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by subsection (1) above, regulations under that subsection may impose an obligation on a water undertaker F2or licensed water supplier—
(a)
(b)
(c)
to ensure that a source which F7is used or proposed to be used for making relevant supplies for domestic or food production purposes is not so used until prescribed requirements for establishing the quality of water which may be supplied from that source have been complied with;
(d)
(e)
to F11ensure that prescribed requirements are complied with with respect to the analysis of water samples or with respect to internal reporting or organisational arrangements.
(3)
Without prejudice to subsections (1) and (2) above, the Secretary of State may by regulations make provision F12imposing obligations on water undertakers or licensed water suppliers with respect to the use for the purposes of or in connection with making relevant supplies—
(a)
of such processes and substances; and
(b)
of products that contain or are made with such substances or materials,
as he considers might affect the quality of any water.
(4)
Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferrred by subsection (3) above, regulations under that subsection may—
(a)
(b)
for the purposes of provision made by virtue of paragraph (a) above, require F15water undertakers and licensed water suppliers to ensure that processes, substances and products used F16for the purposes of or in connection with relevant supplies conform to such standards as may be prescribed by or approved under the regulations;
(c)
impose such other requirements as may be prescribed with respect to the use F17for the purposes of or in connection with relevant supplies of prescribed processes, substances and products;
(d)
provide for the giving, refusal and revocation, by prescribed persons, of approvals required for the purposes of the regulations, for such approvals to be capable of being made subject to such conditions as may be prescribed and for the modification and revocation of any such condition;
(e)
impose obligations to furnish prescribed persons with information reasonably required by those persons for the purpose of carrying out functions under the regulations;
(f)
provide for a contravention of the regulations to constitute—
(i)
a summary offence punishable, on summary conviction, by a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or such smaller sum as may be prescribed; or
(ii)
an offence triable either way and punishable, on summary conviction, by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and, on conviction on indictment, by a fine;
and
(g)
require prescribed charges to be paid to persons carrying out functions under the regulations.
(5)
The Secretary of State may by regulations F18. . . —
(a)
F22(aa)
require a licensed water supplier to publish information about the quality of water supplied for domestic or food production purposes to any premises by that supplier
(6)
Regulations under subsection (5) above—
(a)
shall prescribe both the information which is to be published or provided in pursuance of the regulations and the manner and circumstances in which it is to be published or provided;
(b)
(c)
may impose such other conditions on the provision of information by a water undertaker F27or licensed water supplier to any person as may be prescribed.
F28(7)
In this section, “relevant supplies” means—
(a)
in the case of an obligation imposed on a water undertaker, supplies of water—
(i)
made by the undertaker in carrying out its functions; or
(ii)
made by a licensed water supplier using the undertaker’s supply system; and
(b)
in the case of an obligation imposed on a licensed water supplier, supplies of water made by that supplier using a water undertaker’s supply system.