87 Fluoridation of water supplies at request of health authorities [87 Fluoridation of water supplies at request of relevant authorities]
Water Industry Act 1991 (1991 c 56) | Legislation

Chapter IV
Fluoridation

87  Fluoridation of water supplies at request of health authorities [87 Fluoridation of water supplies at request of relevant authorities]

(1)ÌýÌýÌýÌý Where a [Strategic Health Authority or] [Health Authority] have applied in writing to a water undertaker for the water supplied within an area specified in the application to be fluoridated, that undertaker may, while the application remains in force, increase the fluoride content of the water supplied by the undertaker within that area.

(2)ÌýÌýÌýÌý For the purposes of subsection (1) above an application under this section shall remain in force until the [Strategic Health Authority or] Health Authority, after giving reasonable notice to the water undertaker, withdraw it.

(3)ÌýÌýÌýÌý The area specified in an application under this section may be the whole, or any part of, the [area of the [Strategic Health Authority or] Health Authority] making the application.

(4)ÌýÌýÌýÌý Where in exercise of the power conferred by this section, the fluoride content of any water is increased, the increase may be effected only by the addition of one or more of the following compounds of fluorine, that is to say—

hexafluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6)

disodium hexafluorosilicate

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