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2.—(1) Where a failure has been identified as attributable to the domestic distribution system and notified to the Department for Regional Development under regulation 17(5) or 18(2) of the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007(1); and
(i)the Department considers that the failure is not trivial and likely to recur; and
(ii)in the case of a notification given under regulation 18(2) the Department considers that the failure constitutes a potential danger to human health,
the Department shall immediately serve a notice in writing on the domestic supplier requiring him to take such steps as may be specified in the notice to remedy that failure within the period specified in the notice.
(2) Where the domestic supplier fails to comply with the notice within the period specified in the notice, the Department shall take the steps specified in the notice and may recover from that domestic supplier any expenses reasonably incurred by it in so doing.
(3) Expenses recoverable under paragraph (2) shall be as a civil debt recoverable summarily.
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