{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-england-regulations-2016/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-england-regulations-2016/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Requirement to carry out a risk assessment",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a local authority must carry out a risk assessment for every private water supply in its area and review and update that risk assessment every 5 years (or earlier if it considers that the existing risk assessment is inadequate).\n(2) In the case of a supply provided to a single dwelling, the duty in paragraph (1) applies only where that supply is provided as part of a commercial or public activity.\n(3) In the case of any other supply provided to a single dwelling, a local authority must carry out a risk assessment if requested to do so by the owner or occupier of that dwelling.\n(4) The risk assessment must establish whether there is a risk of supplying water that would constitute a potential danger to human health.\n(5) A risk assessment described in paragraph (1) must—\n(a) satisfy any requirements specified by the Secretary of State in respect of the conduct of such an assessment;\n(b) satisfy the requirements of European standard EN 15975-2 entitled “Security of Drinking Water Supply - Guidelines for Risk and Crisis Management – Risk Management”; and\n(c) take into account the results of monitoring conducted under the second paragraph of Article 7(1) and Article 8 of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy.\n(6) A local authority must within 12 months beginning with the day after the day on which it carried out the risk assessment provide the Secretary of State with a summary of the results of that assessment.\n(7) For the purposes of paragraph (5)(c), Articles 7(1) and 8 of Directive 2000/60/EC are to be read with the following modifications—\n(a) as if any reference to Annex 5 to that Directive were a reference to that Annex as modified by Part 1 of Schedule 5 to the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017;\n(b) in Article 8, as if—\n(i) in paragraph 1, the final indent were omitted;\n(ii) in paragraph 2, the first sentence were omitted;\n(iii) paragraph 3 were omitted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6(5)(6) inserted (11.7.2018) by The Private Water Supplies (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/707), regs. 1(1), 2(3) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 6(7) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 19(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/618/regulation/6",
    "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."
}