Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Private Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”). Regulation 3(b) amends the principal Regulations so that they do not apply to a private supply used for the mashing process or for washing plant during the distillation of spirits. Regulation 4 introduces new charging provisions for councils. Regulation 5 allows councils to arrange for persons other than “relevant persons” in terms of the principal Regulations to take samples, as well as analyse them, and requires councils to be satisfied that those taking and analysing samples are competent to do so. Regulations 6 and 7 provide for reduced sampling frequencies for certain supplies when the premises served by those supplies are used for less than six months in any year. Regulation 8 amends the principal Regulations to take account of local government reorganisation.