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Water Services Act 2021

Provisions relating to supply of drinking water - Requirements relating to notifications and record keeping

37: Drinking water suppliers to keep records

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"Drinking water suppliers must keep records to ensure their water is safe"

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You must keep records if you supply drinking water. You need to record information about your drinking water supply and how it is operated. You also need to record the results of any monitoring to ensure the water is safe. You have to keep records of what you do when you get a direction, enforceable undertaking, or compliance order under the Water Services Act 2021. You must also record any other matters that are specified in compliance rules. The Water Services Authority may ask you to make these records available to them. The Water Services Authority can ask for the records to be made available as soon as possible, at certain times, or all the time. You can find more information about this in the Water Services Act 2021.

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Part 2Provisions relating to supply of drinking water
Requirements relating to notifications and record keeping

37Drinking water suppliers to keep records

  1. A drinking water supplier must keep and maintain records of—

  2. the supplier’s drinking water supply, its operation, and its compliance with legislative requirements; and
    1. the results of any monitoring to ensure that drinking water is safe and complies with legislative requirements; and
      1. the supplier’s actions in response to any direction, enforceable undertaking, or compliance order issued or accepted under this Act; and
        1. any other matter specified in compliance rules.

          1. The Water Services Authority may require, on request, records under subsection (1) to be made available to the Water Services Authority—

          2. as soon as is reasonably practicable; or
            1. at particular times (for example, according to a schedule); or
              1. continuously.

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                • Section 37(2): amended, on , by section 111(2) of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).