The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991

Part II of the principal Regulations (wholesomeness)

3.  In regulation 3 (wholesomeness)–

(a) in paragraph (2) after the words “or cooking” in both places where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or for food production purposes”(1), and for the words “those domestic purposes” there shall be substituted the words “those purposes”;

(b) in paragraph (3)(c), for the words “and (6) below” there shall be substituted the words “to (8) below”;

(c) in paragraph (5) the word “solely” shall be omitted; and

(d) for paragraphs (6) and (7) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:–

“(6) Water shall not be regarded as unwholesome by virtue of paragraph (3)(c) above by reason of the presence in it of total coliforms (item 1 of Table C)–

(a) in a case where 50 or more samples have been taken in accordance with these Regulations within the preceding 12 months from sampling points within the water supply zone in question, if the results of analysis of all those samples establish that in 95% of those samples such coliforms were absent; or

(b) in a case where less than 50 samples have been so taken within the preceding 12 months, if the results of analysis of the last 50 samples so taken establish that in 95% of those samples such coliforms were absent.

(7) Subject to paragraph (8) below, water supplied to any premises for such domestic purposes as are mentioned in paragraph (2) or for food production purposes shall be regarded as unwholesome for the purposes of Part VIA of the Act if on transfer from a treatment works or service reservoir for supply for such purposes it contained a concentration of any of the parameters listed in Table C in excess of the prescribed concentration.

(8) Water transferred from a service reservoir for supply for the purposes mentioned in paragraph (7) shall not be regarded as unwholesome for the purposes of Part VIA of the Act by reason of the presence in it of total coliforms (item 1 of Table C) if the results of analysis of every sample taken in accordance with these Regulations in each week in which the reservoir in question is in use in the preceding 12 months establish that in 95% of all those samples such coliforms were absent.”.

(1)

See the definition of “food production purposes” in section 76L(1A) of the Water (Scotland) Act 1980; section 76L was added by the Water Act 1989, Schedule 22, paragraph 1 and subsection (1A) was inserted by the Food Safety Act 1990, section 56(6).