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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/212",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Monitoring: Group A and Group B monitoring",
  "text": "(1) In this Part, “monitoring of a Group A parameter” (Group A monitoring) means monitoring for the purpose of obtaining information at regular intervals—\n(a) as to the organoleptic and microbiological quality of water;\n(b) as to the effectiveness of drinking-water treatment (particularly of disinfection) where it is used;\n(c) as regards indicator parameters, whether water supplied for regulation 5(1) purposes meets the specifications for those parameters; and\n(d) in respect of certain other parameters which may be identified as relevant by a water undertaker in the monitoring programme.\n(2) The purpose of monitoring of a Group A parameter is to determine whether the presence of such a parameter in water supplied for regulation 5(1) purposes satisfies the provisions of Part 3 of these Regulations or, if a departure has been authorised under Part 8 in relation to that supply, those provisions as read with the terms of that departure.\n(3) In this Part, “monitoring of a Group B parameter” (Group B monitoring) means monitoring each parameter listed in Schedule 1 (other than a parameter being monitored under Group A monitoring) for the purpose of obtaining information from which it may be established—\n(a) whether water supplied for the purposes of regulation 5(1) satisfied the provisions of Part 3 of these Regulations or, if a departure has been authorised under Part 8 in relation to that supply, those provisions as read with the terms of that departure; and\n(b) as regards indicator parameters, whether water supplied for regulation 5(1) purposes meets the specifications for those parameters.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/212/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:01.047970+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."
}