# The Private Water Supplies (Wales) Regulations 2017, Regulation 6: Requirement to carry out a risk assessment

Extent: E+W

(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).
(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.
(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.
(4) A risk assessment must—
(a) establish whether there is a significant risk of supplying water that would constitute a potential danger to human health;
(b) satisfy the requirements of the Security of Drinking Water Supply Guidelines for Risk and Crisis Management; and
(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.
(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.
(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—
(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;
(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/wsi/2017/1041/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/private-water-supplies-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-6
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