Regulation 32 Duties of local authorities—supplementary provision
In performing their duty under section 76F(1) of the Act, a local authority—
shall make such arrangements with the relevant water authority as will secure that they are notified as mentioned in regulation 29(4); and
may take and analyse, or cause to be analysed, by a person designated by them in writing, such samples of the water supplied to premises in their area as they may reasonably require.
Regulation 21 shall apply to samples taken by virtue of paragraph (1) as it applies to samples taken for the purposes of Parts IV and V of these Regulations; but with the following modifications:—
in paragraph (1), for the words “A water authority” there shall be substituted the words “A local authority”, and
in paragraph (2)(e), for the words “either the laboratory or the authority” there shall be substituted the words “the laboratory, the water authority or the local authority”.