Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(1) A water supplier must collect, or cause to be collected, samples of drinking water, in accordance with the sampling program set out in the water supplier's current risk management plan, and in any case at a frequency not less than the relevant sampling frequency.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
(2) The Secretary, on the Secretary's own motion, or on the application of a water supplier, may, by notice published in the Government Gazette, vary the frequency at which samples of drinking water are to be collected at a water sampling point located within a water sampling locality in respect of a parameter specified in column 1 of the Table in Schedule 2.
(3) In determining whether to vary the frequency at which a sample of drinking water is to be collected at a water sampling point located within a water sampling locality, the Secretary may have regard to—
(a) the number of persons taking water from the water supplier's system of supply within the water sampling locality, including any difference in the number of persons taking water at different times in the year; and
(b) the need to have a sufficient number of samples of drinking water collected to ensure that those samples are, so far as practicable, representative of the drinking water supplied in the water sampling locality; and
(c) the chemicals and other substances used by the water supplier to disinfect or treat the drinking water being supplied to the relevant water sampling locality; and
(d) any other matter the Secretary considers relevant.
(4) A notice under subregulation (2) must specify—
(a) the water supplier in respect of which the notice applies; and
(b) the relevant water sampling locality being supplied drinking water by the water supplier; and
(c) the parameter specified in column 1 of the Table in Schedule 2 in respect of which the frequency for the collection of samples of drinking water has been varied; and
(d) the frequency at which samples of drinking water are to be collected in respect of the parameter specified in column 1 of the Table in Schedule 2; and
(e) the period for which the frequency specified in the notice will apply; and
(f) the date on which the notice takes effect.