{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2016/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2016/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/614",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 27th June 2016 immediately after the commencement of the Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016 .\n(2) Parts 1 to 9 and 11 of these Regulations apply in relation to the supply of water by every—\n(a) water undertaker whose area is not wholly or mainly in Wales;\n(b) water supply licensee so far as relating to licensed activities not using the supply system of a water undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in Wales.\n(3) Part 10 of these Regulations applies to local authorities in England, as regards the discharge of functions under that Part, in relation to every—\n(a) water undertaker whose area is wholly in England;\n(b) water undertaker whose area is partly in England and partly in Wales, but only in respect of the part in England;\n(c) water supply licensee so far as relating to licensed activities not using the supply system situated in Wales of any water undertaker.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2)(b) substituted (31.3.2017) by The Water Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/506), arts. 1(1), 32(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(3)(c) substituted (31.3.2017) by The Water Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/506), arts. 1(1), 32(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/618."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "See section 6 of the Act for the meaning of “water undertaker”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/614/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:23:06.508330+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."
}