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The Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 General

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and application

    2. 2.Interpretation

    3. 3.Scope

  3. PART 2 Water standards

    1. 4.Wholesomeness

    2. 5.Use of products or substances in private supplies and disinfection arrangements

    3. 6.Requirement to carry out a risk assessment

  4. PART 3 Monitoring

    1. 7.Monitoring

    2. 8.Further distribution of supplies from water undertakers or water supply licensees

    3. 9.Large supplies and supplies as part of a commercial or public activity

    4. 10.Other private supplies

    5. 11.Monitoring for radioactive substances

    6. 12.Sampling and analysis

    7. 13.New supplies

    8. 14.Records

  5. PART 4 Action in the event of failure

    1. 15.Provision of information

    2. 16.Investigations

    3. 17.Authorisations of different standards

  6. PART 5 Notice procedure

    1. 18.Notices

    2. 19.Appeals

    3. 20.Penalties

  7. PART 6 Miscellaneous

    1. 21.Fees

    2. 21A.Reporting

    3. 22.Review

    4. 23.Revocations

    5. 24.Transitional provisions

  8. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Prescribed concentrations or values

      1. PART 1 Wholesomeness

      2. PART 2 Indicator parameters (excluding radioactive substances)

      3. PART 3 Indicator parameters (radioactive substances)

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Monitoring

      1. PART 1 Monitoring for Group A parameters

        1. 1.Monitoring for Group A parameters

        2. 2.Frequency of sampling for Group A parameters

      2. PART 2 Monitoring for Group B parameters

        1. 3.Monitoring for Group B parameters

        2. 4.Frequency of sampling for Group B parameters

      3. PART 2A Variation of monitoring for Group A and Group B parameters

        1. 5.Variation of monitoring requirements

      4. PART 3 Minimum frequency for Monitoring Group A and Group B Parameters for water put into bottles or containers not intended for sale

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Sampling and analysis

      1. PART 1 General

        1. 1.Samples: general

        2. 2.Analysing samples

        3. 3.Authorisation of alternative methods of analysis

        4. 4.Sampling and analysis by persons other than local authorities

      2. PART 2 Analytical methods

      3. PART 3 Monitoring for indicative dose and analytical performance characteristics

        1. 5.Monitoring for compliance with the ID

        2. 6.Screening for certain radionuclides, or screening for an individual radionuclide

        3. 7.Screening strategies for gross alpha activity and gross beta activity

        4. 8.Calculation of the ID

        5. 9.Performance characteristics and methods of analysis

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Records

      1. 1.Initial records

      2. 2.Additional records

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Fees

      1. 1.A local authority may charge a fee, payable on invoice,...

      2. 2.Persons liable to pay

  10. Explanatory Note

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