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Regulation 33 Duties of local authorities—supplementary provision

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

In performing their duty under section 56(1) of the Act, a local authority–

(a)

shall make such arrangements with the relevant water undertaker as will secure that the authority is notified as mentioned in regulation 30(6); and

(b)

may take and analyse, or cause to be analysed, by a person designated by them in writing, such samples of the water supplied to premises in their area as they may reasonably require.

(2)

Regulation 21 shall apply to samples taken by virtue of paragraph (1) as it applies to samples taken for the purposes of Parts IV and V of these Regulations; but with the following modifications–

(a)

in paragraph (1), for the words “A water undertaker” there shall be substituted the words “A local authority”; and

(b)

in paragraph (2)(e), after the words “the undertaker” there shall be inserted the words “or the authority”.