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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2000/regulation-38",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3184",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2000",
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  "path": "regulation/38",
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  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Duties of local authorities: supplementary provision",
  "text": "(1) In performing their duty under section 77(1) of the Act (general functions of local authorities in relation to water quality), a local authority—\n(a) shall make such arrangements with the relevant water undertaker as will secure that the authority is notified as mentioned in regulation 35(8); and\n(b) may take, or cause to be taken, 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.\n(2) Regulation 16 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—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for the words “A water undertaker” there shall be substituted the words “A local authority”; and\n(b) in paragraph (2)(e), after the words “the undertaker” there shall be inserted the words “or the authority”.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2007/2734",
      "affecting_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2007"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3184/regulation/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:09:45.572380+00:00"
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  "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."
}