{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/119",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-supply-water-quality-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Maintenance of records",
  "text": "(1) A water authority shall prepare and maintain, in respect of each of its water supply zones, a record containing —\n(a) the name of the zone;\n(b) if not comprised in the name of the zone, the name or names of any water treatment works from which water is supplied to premises within the zone;\n(c) an estimate of the population of the zone;\n(d) particulars of any relaxation granted under Part III of these Regulations which applies to water supplied in the zone;\n(e) particulars of any action taken or required to be taken by the authority to comply with undertakings given pursuant to section 76E(4)(b)() in respect of its duties under section 76A of the Act so far as they relate to the zone;\n(f) particulars of the result of any analysis of samples taken in accordance with Part IV of these Regulations or regulations 16 to 19;\n(g) information in the form in Schedule 3 hereto.\n(2) A water authority shall make—\n(a) initial entries in the record in respect of the matters mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) to (e) before 1st July 1990;\n(b) entries relating to the results of the analysis of samples within 28 days of the day on which the result is first known to the authority; and\n(c) an entry of the information mentioned in paragraph (1)(g) when regulation 29(3) is complied with.\n(3) Without prejudice to paragraph (2), the authority shall at least once in each year review and bring up to date the record required to be kept by paragraph (1).\n(4) Nothing in this regulation shall require a water authority to retain a record of any information mentioned in paragraph (1)(f) or (g) at any time more than five years after the date on which the information was first entered in the record.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 45; section 76E was added by the Water Act 1989, Schedule 23, paragraph 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/119/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:29:09.116107+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."
}