{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drinking-water-undertakings-england-and-wales-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1297",
  "legislation_title": "The Drinking Water (Undertakings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drinking-water-undertakings-england-and-wales-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Acceptance of undertakings",
  "text": "An undertaking which relates to a contravention of section 68 of the Water Industry Act 1991 (water quality) in so far as it implemented Council Directive 98/83/EC (on the quality of water intended for human consumption) , as last amended by Commission Directive (EU) 2015/1787, shall be accepted by the relevant enforcement authority for the purposes of section 19(1)(b) of that Act (remedial action) only if the provisions of regulations 3 to 5 are complied with.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 9; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (20.4.2010) by The Water Supply (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/996), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (E.) (17.9.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/942), regs. 1(2), 32; and (W.) (17.12.2018) by The Environment, Planning and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1216), regs. 1(3), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1991 c. 56; and see regulation 3 of S.I. 1989/1147 as amended by regulation 2(2) and (3) of S.I. 1989/1384 and paragraph 2 of the Schedule to S.I. 1991/1847."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1297/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:05.860793+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."
}