The Private Water Supplies (Wales) Regulations 2017

Regulation 23

SCHEDULE 6Fees

Fee

1.  The local authority may charge a fee, payable on invoice, for the activities in the following table, and the fee is the reasonable cost of providing the service subject to the following maximum amounts.

Service

Maximum fee (£)

(1)

No fee is payable where a sample is taken and analysed solely to confirm or clarify the results of the analysis of a previous sample.

Risk assessment (each assessment):
regulation 9 supply700
regulation 10 and 11 supplies300
Sampling (each visit)(1)100
Investigation (each investigation):250
Granting an authorisation (each authorisation):100
Analysing a sample—
taken under regulation 10 or 11:25
taken during monitoring for Group A parameters:110
taken during monitoring for Group B parameters:600

Persons liable to pay

2.—(1) Any person requesting anything under these Regulations is liable for the cost.

(2) Except where sub-paragraph (1) applies, fees are payable, as specified in the invoice, by the relevant person.

(3) Where more than one person is liable, in determining who is required to make payment the local authority—

(a)may apportion the charge between them; and

(b)must have regard to any agreement or other document produced to the local authority relating to the terms on which water is supplied.