The Private Water Supplies (Wales) Regulations 2010

Samples: general

1.—(1) The local authority must ensure that each sample is—

(d) taken by a competent person using suitable equipment;

(e) representative of the water at the sampling point at the time of sampling;

(f) not contaminated in the course of being taken;

(g) kept at such temperature and in such conditions as will secure that there is no material change in what is to be measured; and

(h) analysed without delay by a competent person using suitable equipment.

(2) It must ensure that the sample is analysed using a system of analytical quality control.

(3) The system must be subjected to checking by a person who is—

(a) not under the control of either the analyst or the local authority; and

(b) approved by the Welsh Ministers for that purpose.