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The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2010 (revoked)

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Version Superseded: 15/06/2018

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PART X E+WFunctions of Local Authorities in Relation to Water Quality

Application and interpretationE+W

36.—(1) This Part applies to the performance by a local authority of their duty under section 77(1) of the Act insofar as that duty relates to water supplies which are not private supplies.

(2) In this Part “specified relevant supplier”, in relation to a local authority, means—

(a)a water undertaker any of whose water supply zones include an area which is situated within the area of that authority; or

(b)a [F1water supply licensee] which uses any such water supply zones for the purposes of supplying water to consumers.

Duties of local authorities: supplementary provisionE+W

37.—(1) In performing their duty under section 77(1) of the Act (general functions of local authorities in relation to water quality), a local authority—

(a)must make such arrangements with the specified relevant supplier as will secure that the authority is notified as mentioned in regulation 35(6)(a)(i); and

(b)may take, or cause to be taken, 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 16 will 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 undertaker or [F2supplementary licensee]” there will be substituted the words “ A local authority ”; and

(b)in paragraph (2)(e), for the words “the laboratory, the water undertaker or the [F2supplementary licensee] ” there is substituted “ the laboratory, the water undertaker, the [F2supplementary licensee] or the authority ”.

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