Water Supply (Water Quality) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 2885 of 2001).

Regulation 2 of, and the Schedule to, these Regulations amend the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2000.One effect of the amendments set out in paragraph 1 of the Schedule is to enable proceedings to be taken in respect of contraventions of paragraph (9) of regulation 28 of those Regulations. That paragraph prohibits the supply of water from treatment works for the purposes, or to the premises, referred to in regulation 4(1) of the 2000 Regulations unless it has been established that there is no significant risk of specified substances in water supplied from the works or that, if there is such a risk, and treatment is required, that steps are being taken to comply with the requirements. The amendments set out in paragraphs 2 and 9(d) are related. Their effect is to require a water undertaker to give notice of any occurrence which gives rise, or may give rise, to a significant risk to health. Notice is to be given to each local authority and health authority in whose area reside persons to whose health there is or may be a significant risk, and to the relevant customer services committee. The amendment set out in paragraph 3 provides that water will be regarded as unwholesome if it contains an indicator parameter (a parameter listed in Schedule 2 to the 2000 Regulations) at a concentration or value which would constitute a potential danger to human health. Other amendments to the 2000 Regulations make technical changes to the information to be given as regards microbiological parameters, change definitions, etc.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 29(1)(f) of, and Table 4B in Schedule 3 to, the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 1989. The amendments correct errors in Schedule 5 to the 2000 Regulations.