{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2000/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2000/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3184",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Sampling: further provisions",
  "text": "As soon as a water undertaker has reasonable grounds for believing that any element, organism or substance, other than residual disinfectant or a parameter, whether alone or in combination with a parameter or any other element, organism or substance, may cause the supply within any of its water supply zones to be a supply which does not satisfy—\n(a) the provisions of Part III of these Regulations or,\n(b) if a departure has been authorised under Part VI, those provisions as read with the terms of that authorisation,\nit shall take, or cause to be taken, sufficient samples from water within that zone (whether from a service reservoir, a treatment works or otherwise) in respect of that element, organism or substance, in order to establish whether that water is wholesome.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2035",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Act 2003 (Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2035",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Act 2003 (Consequential and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3184/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:09:45.572380+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."
}