PART 10Functions of local authorities in relation to water quality
Duties of local authorities: supplementary provision37
1
In performing its duty under section 77(1) of the Act, a local authority—
a
must make arrangements with the specified relevant supplier to secure that the authority is notified as mentioned in regulation 35(6)(a)(i);
b
may take or cause to be taken, and analyse or cause to be analysed, by a person, designated by that authority in writing, such samples of the water supplied to premises in its area as that authority may reasonably require.
2
Regulation 16 applies to samples taken by virtue of paragraph (1) as it applies to samples taken for the purposes of Parts 4 and 5 of these Regulations but with the following modifications—
a
paragraph (1) is to be read as if for the words “water undertaker or combined licensee” there were to be substituted the words “
local authority
”
;
b
paragraph (2)(e)(i) is to be read as if for the words “the water undertaker or the combined licensee” there were to be substituted “
the water undertaker, the combined licensee or the local authority
”
.