The Secretary of State may by regulations require a water undertaker or a water supply licensee to ensure that such steps are taken as may be prescribed for the purpose of securing compliance with section 68 above.
Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by subsection (1) above, regulations under that subsection may impose an obligation on a water undertaker or water supply licensee—
to ensure that all such steps are taken as may be prescribed for monitoring and recording whether the water used for relevant supplies to premises for domestic or food production purposes is wholesome at the time of supply;
to ensure that all such steps are taken as may be prescribed for monitoring and recording the quality of the water from any source, or combination of sources, which is used or is proposed to be used for making relevant supplies to any premises for domestic or food production purposes;
to ensure that a source which is used or proposed to be used for making relevant supplies for domestic or food production purposes is not so used until prescribed requirements for establishing the quality of water which may be supplied from that source have been complied with;
to ensure that records are kept of the localities within which all the premises receiving relevant supplies for domestic or food production purposes . . . are normally supplied from the same source or combination of sources;
to ensure that prescribed requirements are complied with with respect to the analysis of water samples or with respect to internal reporting or organisational arrangements.
Without prejudice to subsections (1) and (2) above, the Secretary of State may by regulations make provision imposing obligations on water undertakers or water supply licensees with respect to the use for the purposes of or in connection with making relevant supplies—
of such processes and substances; and
of products that contain or are made with such substances or materials,
as he considers might affect the quality of any water.
Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferrred by subsection (3) above, regulations under that subsection may—
require water undertakers or water supply licensees to ensure that processes, substances and products which have not been approved under the regulations or which contravene the regulations are not used for the purposes of or in connection with relevant supplies;
for the purposes of provision made by virtue of paragraph (a) above, require water undertakers and water supply licensees to ensure that processes, substances and products used for the purposes of or in connection with relevant supplies conform to such standards as may be prescribed by or approved under the regulations;
impose such other requirements as may be prescribed with respect to the use for the purposes of or in connection with relevant supplies of prescribed processes, substances and products;
provide for the giving, refusal and revocation, by prescribed persons, of approvals required for the purposes of the regulations, for such approvals to be capable of being made subject to such conditions as may be prescribed and for the modification and revocation of any such condition;
impose obligations to furnish prescribed persons with information reasonably required by those persons for the purpose of carrying out functions under the regulations;
provide for a contravention of the regulations to constitute—
a summary offence punishable, on summary conviction, by a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or such smaller sum as may be prescribed; or
an offence triable either way and punishable, on summary conviction, by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and, on conviction on indictment, by a fine;
and
require prescribed charges to be paid to persons carrying out functions under the regulations.
The Secretary of State may by regulations . . . —
require a water undertakerto publish information about the quality of water supplied for domestic or food production purposes to any premises using that undertaker's supply system; . . .
require a water supply licensee to publish information about the quality of water supplied for domestic or food production purposes to any premises by that licensee.
require any such undertaker or licensee to provide information to prescribed persons about the quality of water supplied as referred to in paragraph (a) or (aa) above (as the case may be).
Regulations under subsection (5) above—
shall prescribe both the information which is to be published or provided in pursuance of the regulations and the manner and circumstances in which it is to be published or provided;
may require the provision of information by a water undertaker or water supply licensee to any person to be free of charge or may authorise it to be subject to the payment by that person to the undertaker or licensee of a prescribed charge; and
may impose such other conditions on the provision of information by a water undertaker or water supply licensee to any person as may be prescribed.
In this section, "relevant supplies" means—
in the case of an obligation imposed on a water undertaker, supplies of water—
made by the undertaker in carrying out its functions; or
made by a water supply licensee using the undertaker's supply system; and
in the case of an obligation imposed on a water supply licensee, supplies of water made by that supplier using a water undertaker's supply system.