{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014/schedule-1A/paragraph-2n2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014/schedule-1A/paragraph-2n2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/364",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/1A/paragraph/2n2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Based on the results of a risk assessment, the list of parameters in Part B of this schedule (including any micro-organism, parasite or substance referred to in paragraph 2(1)(b) of that Part), must be extended and/or the minimum sampling frequencies under that Part increased if—\n(a) the list of parameters or frequencies required to be monitored under that Part B is not sufficient to fulfil the obligations imposed by regulation 5(1), (3) and (4);\n(b) additional monitoring is required by regulation 5(2); ...\n(c) this is necessary to verify the matters in paragraph 1(a) of Part A of this schedule,\n(d) a risk assessment has established that raw water—\n(i) in the catchment area used to abstract water for human consumption purposes, or\n(ii) as a result of abstraction through the public water supply system,\ncontains a parameter at a concentration or value which would (whether in conjunction with another parameter in the water or otherwise) constitute a potential danger to human health, or\n(e) a risk assessment has identified extension of the list of parameters and/or increase of the minimum sampling frequencies as the most appropriate means of mitigating a risk to human health",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1A inserted (27.10.2017) by The Public Water Supplies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/281), reg. 1(1), sch. 1 (as amended by The Public and Private Water Supplies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/321), regs. 1, 3(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in sch. 1A Pt. C para. 2 omitted (1.1.2023) by virtue of The Public Water Supplies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/387), regs. 1(1), 17(4)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1A Pt. C paras. 2(d)(e) inserted (1.1.2023) by The Public Water Supplies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/387), regs. 1(1), 17(4)(a)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/364/schedule/1A/paragraph/2n2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:32:08.441116+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."
}