The Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 2009 Regulations” means the Private Water Supplies Regulations 2009(1);

“the Act” means the Water Industry Act 1991;

“audit monitoring” has the meaning given in paragraph 3(2) of Part 2 of Schedule 2;

“check monitoring” has the meaning given in paragraph 1(2) of Part 1 of Schedule 2;

“consumer” means a person to whom a private water supply is provided for human consumption purposes;

“disinfection” means a process of water treatment to remove, or render harmless to health, every pathogenic micro-organism and pathogenic parasite that would otherwise be present in the water;

“indicative dose” (ID) means the committed effective dose for 1 year of ingestion resulting from all the radionuclides whose presence has been detected in a supply of water intended for human consumption, of natural and artificial origin, excluding tritium, potassium−40, radon and short-lived radon decay products;

“indicator parameter” means a parameter listed in Table C in Part 2 of Schedule 1;

“local authority” means any of the following—

“NTU” means Nephelometric Turbidity Unit;

“parameter” means a property, element, organism or substance listed in the first column of the Tables in Schedule 1 as read, where appropriate, with the notes to that Schedule and those Tables;

“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 1 as measured by reference to the unit of measurement so specified, and as read, where appropriate, with the notes to that Schedule and those Tables;

“private water supply” or “private supply of water” means a supply of water other than a supply provided directly by a water undertaker(2) or licensed water supplier(3), and which is comprised of all physical assets from the point of abstraction to the point of use, including associated pipes, fittings and tanks;

“radioactive parameters table” has the meaning given in regulation 11(1);

“relevant person” means—

“risk assessment” means a risk assessment carried out under regulation 6.

(2) In these Regulations, a reference to an application or notice includes a reference to that application or notice in electronic form.