{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014/schedule-1A/paragraph-2n3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014/schedule-1A/paragraph-2n3.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/2n3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 1, sampling at the point of compliance must meet the following requirements:—\n(a) a sample for copper, lead or nickel must be taken at the consumer’s tap without prior flushing;\n(b) a sample for any such parameter or any other chemical parameter must—\n(i) be a random daytime sample of one litre volume; or\n(ii) use a fixed stagnation time method that better reflects the national situation, provided that, at the water supply zone level, this does not result in fewer cases of non-compliance than using the random daytime method; and\n(c) a sample for microbiological parameters at the point of compliance must be taken and handled in accordance with sampling purpose B of European standard EN ISO 19458:2006 entitled “Water quality - Sampling for microbiological analysis (ISO 19458:2006)”.",
  "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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/364/schedule/1A/paragraph/2n3",
    "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."
}