{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2016/regulation-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2016/regulation-29.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/29",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Water treatment to minimise contamination from pipes",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where there is a risk (“the prescribed risk”) that water supplied by a relevant supplier would, for the reason mentioned in paragraph (3), after leaving the relevant supplier's pipes—\n(a) contain a concentration of copper in excess of 2mg/litre, or\n(b) contain a concentration of lead in excess of 10µg/litre.\n(2) Every water undertaker or wholesale licensee which introduces water into the supply system used by the relevant supplier must, subject to paragraph (4), treat the water in such a way as will, in its opinion, eliminate the prescribed risk or reduce it to a minimum.\n(3) The reason referred to in paragraph (1) is the presence in the water of a concentration of copper or lead which is attributable to the fact that copper or lead is the major component of such a pipe as is mentioned in section 68(3) of the Act , or its associated fittings.\n(4) Paragraph (1) does not require a water undertaker or wholesale licensee to treat water if—\n(a) the treatment is unlikely to achieve a significant reduction in the concentration of copper or lead, or\n(b) treatment is not reasonably practicable.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 29(2) substituted (31.3.2017) by The Water Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/506), arts. 1(1), 32(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 29(4) substituted (31.3.2017) by The Water Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/506), arts. 1(1), 32(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 68(3) was amended by paragraph 18(5) of Schedule 8 to the Water Act 2003 (c.37)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/614/regulation/29",
    "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."
}