{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-england-regulations-2016/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-england-regulations-2016/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/618",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-england-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Wholesomeness",
  "text": "(1) A private supply of water is to be regarded as wholesome if the following conditions are met—\n(a) it does not contain any micro-organism, parasite or substance, alone or in conjunction with any other substance, at a concentration or value that would constitute a potential danger to human health,\n(b) it complies with the concentrations or values prescribed in Part 1 of Schedule 1 for each parameter, and\n(c) the water satisfies the formula “[nitrate]/50 + [nitrite]/3 ≤ 1”, where the square brackets signify the concentrations in mg/1 for nitrate (NO3) and nitrite (NO2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/618/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:23:04.925081+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."
}