{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2017/1041",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Water Supplies (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Requirement to carry out a risk assessment",
  "text": "(1) 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 or as part of a domestic tenancy.\n(3) In the case of a supply provided to a single dwelling not falling within paragraph (2), a local authority must carry out a risk assessment if requested to do so by the owner or occupier of that dwelling.\n(4) A risk assessment must—\n(a) establish whether there is a significant risk of supplying water that would constitute a potential danger to human health;\n(b) satisfy the requirements of the Security of Drinking Water Supply Guidelines for Risk and Crisis Management; and\n(c) take into account the results from the monitoring programmes established by the second paragraph of Article 7(1) and Article 8 of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.\n(5) A local authority must within 12 months of having carried out a risk assessment provide the Welsh Ministers with a summary of the results of that assessment.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(c), a reference to Articles 7(1) and 8 of Directive 2000/60/EC is to be read with the following modifications—\n(a) as if any reference to Annex 5 of 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",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(4)(c) inserted (28.3.2019) by The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 29(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 6(6) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Flood and Water (Amendments) (England and Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/460), regs. 1(1), 6(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 20.11.2017, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 219 of the Act (as amended by paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 11 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)) for the meaning of “local authority”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "EN 15975-2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1, as last amended by Commission Directive 2014/101/EU (OJ No. L 311, 31.10.2014, p. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/1041/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:24:57.489600+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."
}