{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/575",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Charges for sampling and analysis",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, an islands or district council may in respect of a private supply serving premises in their area charge the person prescribed in paragraphs (3) and (4) for expenses reasonably incurred by the council for—\n(a) sampling a supply in accordance with these Regulations subject to a maximum charge of £50 per visit to any premises for that purpose; and\n(b) the analysis, in accordance with these Regulations, of samples taken for the purposes thereof subject to the maximum charges set out in Schedule 4.\n(2) The power to charge mentioned in paragraph (1) does not include a power to charge—\n(a) in the case of a class C, D, E, 3, 4 or 5 supply for the taking and analysis of any sample taken pursuant to regulation 14(6); or\n(b) for the taking and analysis of any sample taken solely in exercise of the power conferred by regulation 14(9)(a).\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the person who is to be charged under paragraph (1) is—\n(a) in a case where there is an agreement, contract, licence or other legally binding document relating to the terms on which water is supplied and which identifies a person as being liable for maintenance of, or for any costs associated with, the supply, that person;\n(b) in a case where the premises served by the supply is a croft within the meaning of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 and is occupied by a tenant, the tenant of the croft; and\n(c) in any other case, the owner of the premises served by the supply.\n(4) Where in any case to which paragraph (3)(b) or (c) applies, there are a number of premises served by the supply, the charges payable shall be apportioned equally among the owners, or in the case of crofts occupied by a tenant, the tenants of all the premises served:\nProvided that where one or more of the premises served is a food production premises and the others are not, the charges payable for the sampling and analysis required in respect of those premises, which is additional to the sampling and analysis required in respect of the other premises, shall be borne solely by the owner, or where the food production premises are a croft occupied by a tenant, the tenant, of those food production premises, or if there are more than one food production premises, equally by the owners or, as the case may be, tenants of all such premises.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1955 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1856",
      "affecting_title": "The Private Water Supplies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "saved",
      "affecting": "ssi/2006/902",
      "affecting_title": null
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/575/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:26:40.255710+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."
}