The Private Water Supplies (Wales) Regulations 2017

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 Water standards

    1. 1.Title, application and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

    3. 3.Scope

    4. 4.Wholesomeness

    5. 5.Use of products or substances in private water supplies and disinfection arrangements

    6. 6.Requirement to carry out a risk assessment

  3. PART 2 Monitoring

    1. 7.Monitoring

    2. 8.Further distribution of supplies from water undertakers or water supply licensees

    3. 9.Large supplies and supplies as part of a commercial or public activity

    4. 10.Supplies to a single dwelling

    5. 11.Other private supplies including supplies as part of a domestic tenancy

    6. 12.Monitoring of radioactive substances: general

    7. 13.Monitoring of radioactive substances: supplies to specified single dwellings

    8. 14.Sampling and analysis

    9. 15.New supplies

    10. 16.Records

  4. PART 3 Action in the event of failure

    1. 17.Provision of information

    2. 18.Investigation

    3. 19.Authorisations of different standards

  5. PART 4 Notice procedure

    1. 20.Notices

    2. 21.Appeals

    3. 22.Penalties

  6. PART 5 Miscellaneous

    1. 23.Fees

    2. 24.Revocations

    3. 25.Consequential amendment

    4. 26.Transitional provisions

  7. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Concentrations or Values

      1. PART 1 Wholesomeness

      2. PART 2 Indicator Parameters

      3. PART 3 Radioactive substances parameters

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Monitoring

      1. PART 1 Monitoring for Group A parameters

        1. 1.Sampling

        2. 2.Frequency of sampling

      2. PART 2 Monitoring for Group B parameters

        1. 3.Sampling

        2. 4.Frequency of sampling

      3. PART 3 Minimum frequency for both monitoring for Group A parameters and monitoring for Group B parameters for water put into bottles or containers

      4. PART 4 Variation of monitoring requirements for Group A and Group B parameters

        1. 5.Variation of sampling frequency

        2. 6.Variation of parameters

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Monitoring of radioactive substances

      1. 1.Radon

      2. 2.Tritium

      3. 3.Indicative Dose

      4. 4.Water treatment

      5. 5.Averaging

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Sampling and analysis

      1. PART 1 General

        1. 1.Samples: general

        2. 2.Analysing samples: microbiological parameters

        3. 3.Analysing samples: chemical and indicator parameters

        4. 4.Authorisation of alternative methods of analysis

        5. 5.Sampling and analysis by persons other than local authorities

      2. PART 2 Analytical methods

      3. PART 3 Monitoring for indicative dose and analytical performance characteristics

        1. 6.A local authority may use reliable screening strategies to indicate...

        2. 7.The strategies referred to in paragraph 6 may include screening...

        3. 8.Screening for certain radionuclides, or screening for an individual radionuclide

        4. 9.A local authority must, in deciding which radionuclides require to...

        5. 10.Screening strategies for gross alpha activity and gross beta activity

        6. 11.If the gross alpha activity exceeds 0,1Bq/l or the gross...

        7. 12.The Welsh Ministers may set alternative screening levels for gross...

        8. 13.Calculation of the indicative dose

        9. 14.Where the following formula is satisfied, it can be assumed...

        10. 15.Performance characteristics and methods of analysis

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      Records

      1. 1.Initial records

      2. 2.Additional records

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      Fees

      1. 1.Fee

      2. 2.Persons liable to pay

  9. Explanatory Note