{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2016/regulation-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-2016/regulation-33.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/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) A water undertaker or wholesale licensee which contravenes regulation 26(1) or (4) or the terms of a notice served under regulation 28(4)(d) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine.\n(2) In any proceedings against a water undertaker or wholesale licensee for an offence under paragraph (1), it is a defence for that water undertaker or wholesale licensee to show that it took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.\n(3) A water undertaker or wholesale licensee which—\n(a) applies or introduces any substance or product in contravention of regulation 31(1) or a notice given under regulation 31(8), or\n(b) uses any process in contravention of a prohibition imposed under regulation 32(1) or without complying with a condition imposed by virtue of regulation 32(2),\nis guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine.\n(4) If any person, in furnishing any information or making an application under regulation 31 or 32, makes any statement which that person knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, that person is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine.\n(5) Proceedings for an offence under paragraph (4) must not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Secretary of State or the Director of Public Prosecutions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in regs. 31-34 substituted (31.3.2017) by The Water Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/506), arts. 1(1), 32(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/614/regulation/33",
    "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."
}