{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1384",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Amendment) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of Regulations",
  "text": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 1989 are amended–\n(1) in regulation 2 by the insertion, after the definition of “consumer”, of the following definition–\n““disinfected” means subjected to a process which removes or renders inactive pathogenic micro-organisms so as to satisfy the requirements of Part II of these Regulations in respect of the parameters listed in Table C; and cognate expressions (with the exception of the term “residual disinfectant”) shall be construed accordingly;”;\n(2) in regulation 3(5) and (6) by the substitution for the words “paragraph (2)(c)” of the words “paragraph (3)(c)”;\n(3) in regulation 3(6) by the substitution for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of the following sub-paragraphs–\n“(a) if, in the preceding 12 months, 50 or more samples have been taken in accordance with these Regulations in respect of that parameter, every such sample taken in those months; or\n(b) in any other case, the last 50 samples so taken,”;\n(4) in regulation 6(2) by the substitution for the words from the beginning of the paragraph to the beginning of sub-paragraph (a) of the following words–\n“An authorisation given under this Part may include conditions relating to–”;\n(5) by the substitution for regulation 8(1)(c) of the following–\n“(c) regulation 6 authorised only imposition of the conditions mentioned in paragraph (2) thereof”;\n(6) in regulations 10 and 16 by the substitution for the words “so specified” of the words “specified in this Part”;\n(7) in regulation 13(7) by the omission after head (ii) of the words “in respect of that parameter”;\n(8) in regulations 13(8)(b) and 19(2)(b) by the substitution for the words “other period” and “the period” of the words “other part of the period” and “that part”, respectively;\n(9) in regulation 22 by the omission of the definition of “disinfected”;\n(10) in regulation 23(1) by the substitution for the words “consists in” of the words “consists of”;\n(11) in regulation 24(3) by the substitution for the words “of the kind mentioned in section 52(3)(a) of the Act” of the words “which is subject to water pressure from a water main or would be so subject but for the closing of some valve and”; and\n(12) in regulation 25(1)(b) by the insertion after the word “affect” of the word “adversely”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2790",
      "affecting_title": "The Private Water Supplies Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1384/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:07.464814+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."
}