The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991

Part IV of the principal Regulations (monitoring of water supplies)

6.  In regulation 12 (authorisation of supply points)–

(a) in paragraph (1), at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraphs (2) to (5),”, and after the words “of samples taken” there shall be inserted the words “for a water supply zone”;

(b) in paragraph (2) after the words “analysis of samples taken” there shall be inserted the words “for a water supply zone” and at the end there shall be inserted the words “within that zone”;

(c) after paragraph (2), there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:–

“(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), the Secretary of State may at any time modify or revoke an authorisation granted under paragraph (1).

(4) Unless it appears to the Secretary of State that the immediate modification or revocation of an authorisation is required in the interests of public health, he shall not modify or revoke such an authorisation without giving at least six months' (or, if the water authority agrees, at least six weeks') notice of his intention to do so to the water authority to which the authorisation relates.

(5) A water authority on whose application such an authorisation has been granted shall notify the Secretary of State as soon as they believe that an analysis of samples taken from a supply point for a water supply zone would produce significantly different data in respect of the parameter in question than an analysis of samples taken from any of the sampling points within that zone; a nd, notwithstanding paragraph (4), the Secretary of State shall thereupon revoke the authorisation.”.