- Made under
- Reservoirs Act 1975
- Enforced by
- Environment Agency
- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Statutory Undertaker1
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Statutory Undertaker — also bound by 179 other Acts
The Cory Decarbonisation Project Order 2025
120 duties
Water Industry Act 1991
53 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.006
Periodical inspection of high-risk reservoirs (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
- Arrange periodic safety inspections for high-risk reservoirsStatutory Undertaker
s.008
Review (opens in a new tab)
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must review reservoir regulations every five yearsCrown / Minister / Government department
6 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Connected legislation
The wider family of instruments made under the same parent Act.
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.