The Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016

Regulation 21

SCHEDULE 5U.K.Fees

This schedule has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

1.  A 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 serviceF1....U.K.

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.

ServiceF2...
Risk assessment (for each assessment)F2. . .
Sampling (for each visit)1F2. . .
Investigation (for each investigation)F2. . .
Granting an authorisation (for each authorisation)F2. . .
Analysing a sample—
taken under regulation 10 (for parameters referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to (e) of that regulation)F2. . .
taken during [F3monitoring of Group A parameters]F2. . .
taken during [F4monitoring of Group B parameters] and monitoring under regulation 11F2. . .

Persons liable to payU.K.

2.—(1) Any person requesting a local authority to carry out any of the activities specified in the Table in paragraph 1 is liable for the cost.

(2) Otherwise fees are payable, as specified in the invoice, by the relevant person.

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

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

(b)may apportion the charge between them.