Section 76B Regulations for preserving water quality.P1

to take all such steps as may be prescribed for monitoring and recording whether the water which F2Scottish Water supplies to premises for F3domestic or food production purposes is wholesome at the time of supply;

to take all such steps as may be prescribed for monitoring and recording the quality of the water from any source, or combination of sources, which Scottish Water uses or is proposing to use for supplying water to any premises for domestic or food production purposes;

to ensure that a source which Scottish Water is using or proposing to use for supplying water for domestic or food production purposes is not so used until prescribed requirements for establishing the quality of water which may be supplied from that source have been complied with;

to keep records of the localities within which all the premises supplied with water for domestic or food production purposes by Scottish Water are normally supplied from the same source or combination of sources;

to comply with prescribed requirements with respect to the analysis of water samples or with respect to internal reporting or organisational arrangements.

forbid the use by Scottish Water of processes, substances and products which have not been approved under the regulations or which contravene the regulations;

for the purposes of provision made by virtue of paragraph (a) above, require processes, substances and products used by Scottish Water to conform to such standards as may be prescribed by or approved under the regulations;

impose such other requirements as may be prescribed with respect to the use by Scottish Water of prescribed processes, substances and products;

provide for the giving, refusal and revocation, by prescribed persons, of approvals required for the purposes of the regulations, for such approvals to be capable of being made subject to such conditions as may be prescribed and for the modification and revocation of any such condition;

impose obligations to furnish prescribed persons with information reasonably required by those persons for the purpose of carrying out functions under the regulations;

provide for a contravention of the regulations to constitute—

require prescribed charges to be paid to persons carrying out functions under the regulations.

to publish information about the quality of water supplied for domestic or food production purposes to any premises by F7Scottish Water ; and

to provide information to prescribed persons about the quality of water so supplied.

shall prescribe both the information which is to be published or provided in pursuance of the regulations and the manner and circumstances in which it is to be published or provided;

may require the provision of information by F8Scottish Water to any person to be free of charge or may authorise it to be subject to the payment by that person to F9Scottish Water of a prescribed charge; and

may impose such other conditions on the provision of information by Scottish Water to any person as may be prescribed.