1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2000.
(2) This regulation, regulations 2, 27 to 29, 40 and 41, paragraph (1) of regulation 43, and so much of regulation 33 as relates to any contravention of a provision of regulation 29, shall come into force on 1st January 2001.
(3) Regulations 3 and 42 shall come into force on 1st June 2003.
(4) Regulations 4 and 17 to 24, paragraphs (4) and (5) of regulation 30, and paragraph (2) of regulation 43, shall come into force on 25th December 2003.
(5) All other provisions of these Regulations shall come into force on 1st January 2004.
(6) Parts I to VIII, X and XI of these Regulations apply to the supply of water by water undertakers whose areas are not wholly or mainly in Wales.
(7) Part IX of these Regulations applies to local authorities in England, as regards the discharge of functions under that Part in relation to water undertakers—
(a)whose area is situated wholly in England; or
(b)whose area is situated partly in England and partly in Wales, as regards the part situated in England.