{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2014/9780111024782",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Scottish Water to notify immediately any potential danger to human health",
  "text": "(1) Where Scottish Water establishes under regulation 17(1) that the failure in question constitutes a potential danger to human health, it must, by notice, immediately notify this to—\n(a) the Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland;\n(b) the Scottish Ministers;\n(c) each local authority for the area in which the potential danger occurs; and\n(d) those of its consumers who are likely to be affected by the failure.\n(2) The notice required by paragraph (1)(d) must inform the consumers—\n(a) of the nature of the failure;\n(b) that the failure constitutes a potential danger to human health;\n(c) of any remedial action taken, or to be taken, by Scottish Water; and\n(d) of any action that Scottish Water considers is necessary or desirable for the consumer to take to protect human health.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2014/9780111024782/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:35:33.542827+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}