The Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 1989

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations–

“the Act” means the Water Act 1989;

“Chapter II” means Chapter II of Part II of the Act;

“consumer” means a person to whom water is supplied for a purpose mentioned in Part II of these Regulations by a water undertaker in the discharge of its duties under Chapter II;

“ground water” shall be construed in accordance with section 103(1)(d) of the Act;

“parameter” means a property, element, organism or substance listed in the second column of the Tables in Schedule 2 to these Regulations or in the first column of Tables 1 to 4, 6 and 7 in Schedule 3;

“pesticides and related products” means any fungicide, herbicide or insecticide and polychlorinated biphenyls and terphenyls;

“prescribed concentration or value”, in relation to any parameter, means the maximum or minimum concentration or value specified in relation to that parameter in the Tables in Schedule 2 as measured by reference to the unit of measurement so specified;

“sampling point” means the point, being a consumer’s tap, that is determined for the purposes of Part IV of these Regulations;

“service reservoir” means a reservoir (including a water tower) which contains water that has been treated with a view to complying with regulation 23 below, but does not include a reservoir at a treatment works;

“supply point” means any point, not being a sampling point, which the Secretary of State may, in accordance with regulation 12, authorise for the purposes of regulation 10;

“water supply zone” means an area that is designated by a water undertaker (whether by reference to a source of supply, the number of persons supplied from any source, or otherwise) for the purposes of the provisions of these Regulations, being an area in which, in the undertaker’s estimation, not more than 50,000 people reside;

“year” means calendar year;

and any reference to a Table followed by a letter or a number is a reference to the Table that bears that letter or number in Schedule 2 or 3 to these Regulations.