The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Scotland) Regulations 1990

PART VIII FUNCTIONS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN RELATION TO WATER QUALITY

Application and interpretation

31.—(1) This Part applies to the performance by a local authority of their duty under section 76F(1) of the Act insofar as that duty relates to water supplies which are not private supplies.

(2) In this Part “relevant water authority”, in relation to a local authority, means a water authority any of whose supply zones include an area which falls within the area of that authority.

Duties of local authorities—supplementary provision

32.—(1) In performing their duty under section 76F(1) of the Act, a local authority—

(a) shall make such arrangements with the relevant water authority as will secure that they are notified as mentioned in regulation 29(4); and

(b) may take and analyse, or cause to be analysed, by a person designated by them in writing, such samples of the water supplied to premises in their area as they may reasonably require.

(2) Regulation 21 shall apply to samples taken by virtue of paragraph (1) as it applies to samples taken for the purposes of Parts IV and V of these Regulations; but with the following modifications:—

(a) in paragraph (1), for the words “A water authority” there shall be substituted the words “A local authority”, and

(b) in paragraph (2)(e), for the words “either the laboratory or the authority” there shall be substituted the words “the laboratory, the water authority or the local authority”.