Regulation 37 Duties of local authorities: supplementary provision

England and Wales

(1)

In performing its duty under section 77(1) of the Act, a local authority—

(a)

must make arrangements with the specified relevant supplier to secure that the authority is notified as mentioned in regulation 35(6)(a)(i);

(b)

may take or cause to be taken, and analyse or cause to be analysed, by a person, designated by that authority in writing, such samples of the water supplied to premises in its area as that authority may reasonably require.

(2)

Regulation 16 applies to samples taken by virtue of paragraph (1) as it applies to samples taken for the purposes of Parts 4 and 5 of these Regulations but with the following modifications—

(a)

paragraph (1) is to be read as if for the words “water undertaker or F1wholesale licensee” there were to be substituted the words “ local authority ”;

(b)

paragraph (2)(e)(i) is to be read as if for the words “the water undertaker or the wholesale licensee” there were to be substituted “ the water undertaker, the wholesale licensee or the local authority ”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 37(2) substituted (31.3.2017) by The Water Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments etc.) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/506), arts. 1(1), 32(4)