The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2016
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2016/614 |
| Year | 2016 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 27th June 2016 immediately after the commencement of the Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016 water undertaker F37water supply licensee so far as relating to licensed activities not using the supply system of a water undertaker whose area is wholly or mainly in Wales.water undertaker whose area is wholly in England;water undertaker whose area is partly in England and partly in Wales, but only in respect of the part in England;F38water supply licensee so far as relating to licensed activities not using the supply system situated in Wales of any water undertaker.(1) In these Regulations—
- “the 2000 Regulations” means the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2000 ;
- “the Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991;
- “appropriate local authority” in relation to—
- (a) a departure authorised under regulation 22,
- (b) an application for any such authorisation, or
- (c) an event specified in regulation 35(6) ,
... - “blending point” means a point at which water originating from two or more sources and treated for the purposes of their supply for regulation 4(1) purposes is combined under conditions that are designed to secure that, after such combination, the requirements of regulation 4(2) are met;
- “Chapter 3” means Chapter 3 of Part 3 of the Act (quality and sufficiency of water supplies) ; ......
- “consumer” means a person to whom water is supplied for regulation 4(1) purposes by a relevant supplier in the discharge of its duties under Chapter 3;
- “disinfection” means a process of water treatment to remove or render harmless to human health every pathogenic micro-organism and pathogenic parasite that would otherwise be present in the water;
- F66“E. coli” means Escherichia coli;
- “groundwater” means water contained in underground strata, and section 221(3) of the Water Resources Act 1991 has effect for the purposes of this definition as it has effect for the purpose of construing references in that Act to water contained in underground strata;
- “indicative dose” (ID) means the committed effective dose for 1 year of ingestion resulting from all the radionuclides whose presence has been detected in a supply of water intended for human consumption, of natural and artificial origin, excluding tritium, potassium-40, radon and short-lived radon decay products;
- “indicator parameter” means a parameter listed in Schedule 2;
- “local authority” means any of the following—
- (a) the Common Council of the City of London;
- (b) a London Borough Council;
- (c) a district council;
- (d) the council of a county in which there are no district councils;
- F66“monitoring of a Group A...
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