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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-1989/regulation-30",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1147",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/30",
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  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Provision of information",
  "text": "(1) A water undertaker shall make available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours and free of charge at such of its offices as are normally open to the public any record maintained by it in accordance with regulation 29.\n(2) A water undertaker shall afford to any person facilities to take or obtain a copy of any part of a record maintained in accordance with regulation 29–\n(a) in the case of a person who receives a supply of water in the zone and whose request is confined to information relating to that zone, free of charge;\n(b) in any other case, on payment of such reasonable charge as the undertaker may determine.\n(3) A water undertaker shall include in or append to at least one of the accounts sent to each customer in any year the address and telephone number of at least one of the offices at which information about any matter included in the record mentioned in paragraph (1) may be obtained.\n(4) A water undertaker shall, not later than 31st December 1990 and not later than 30th June in each year thereafter, supply to a local authority information in the form set out in Schedule 4 to these Regulations relating to the preceding year concerning the general quality of water supplied to premises in the authority’s area, and so far as the information is relevant to the authority’s area–\n(a) the samples taken in respect of each parameter;\n(b) the extent to which the undertaker has complied with the requirements of Parts II and IV of these Regulations; and\n(c) the action taken by the undertaker to comply with undertakings given pursuant to section 20(5)(b) in respect of its duties under section 52 of the Act:\nProvided that the information required to be supplied before 1st January 1991 shall cover the six month period ending 30th June 1990.\n(5) A water undertaker shall notify a local authority and a district health authority as soon as may be after the occurrence of any event which, by reason of its effect or likely effect on the water supplied by it, gives rise or is likely to give rise to a significant risk to the health of persons residing in the authority’s area.\n(6) An authority who have received a notification under paragraph (5) may require the water undertaker to provide them with such information relating to the event and its consequences as they may reasonably require.\n(7) In this regulation–\n“local authority” means–\n(a) the Common Council of the City of London;\n(b) a London borough council;\n(c) a district council; and\n“district health authority” shall be construed in accordance with the definition of “District Health Authority” in section 1 of the Health Services Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 53."
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      "affecting_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Amendment) Regulations 1991"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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