# The Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016, Regulation 6: Requirement to carry out a risk assessment

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(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).
(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.
(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.
(4) The risk assessment must establish whether there is a risk of supplying water that would constitute a potential danger to human health.
(5) A risk assessment described in paragraph (1) must—
(a) satisfy any requirements specified by the Secretary of State in respect of the conduct of such an assessment;
(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
(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.
(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.
(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—
(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;
(b) in Article 8, as if—
(i) in paragraph 1, the final indent were omitted;
(ii) in paragraph 2, the first sentence were omitted;
(iii) paragraph 3 were omitted.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/618/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-england-regulations-2016/regulation-6
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