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No. S 000  
PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT  
(CHAPTER 261)  
[DRAFT ] PUBLIC UTILITIES (WA TER  SUPPLY)  
(AMENDMENT NO. X) RE GULATIONS 2018  
In exercise of the powers conferred by section  72 of the Public 
Utilities Act , the Public Utilities Board, with the approval of the 
Minister for the Environment and W ater Resources,  makes the 
following Regulations : 
Citation and commencement  
1.  These Regulations  are the Public Utilities (Water Suppl y) 
(Amendment No. X) Regulations 2018  and come into operation on 
1 October 2018. 
Amendment of regulation  40A 
2.  Regulation  40A of the  Public Utilities (Water Supply) 
Regulations (Rg 5)  (called in these Regulations the principal 
Regulations)  is amended  — 
 (a) by deleting the word “means —” in the definition of 
“specified water fitting” and subst ituting the words “means 
any of the following:”;  
 (b) by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph  (d) of 
the definition of “specified water fitting”; and  
 (c) by i nserting , immediately after  paragraph  (e) of the 
definition of “specified water fitting” , the following 
paragraph:  
 “(f) a dishwasher intended for household use;”.  
Amendment of  Part 1 of  Second Schedule  
3.  Part 1 of th e Second Schedule to the principal Regulations is 
amended  —   2     
 (a) by inserting, immediately after item (4) of paragraph  1, the 
following item:  
“ First column  Second 
column  Third column  
 Specified water 
fitting  Type  Applicable test standard  
or method  
 (5) Dishwasher   — (a) Clause  8.2 of 
BS EN 50242 : 
2016  / BS EN 
60436: 2016; 
or  
(b) Clause  8.2 of 
IEC 60436 : 
2015 
The water 
consumption is 
determin ed in 
accordance with 
paragraph 4A ”; and 
 (b) by inserting, immediately after paragraph  4, the following 
paragraph:  
“4A.  The water co nsumption for a dishwasher is to be measured 
using the wash programme or other associated settings 
recommended in the manufactu rer’s product literature for  normally 
soiled tableware at rated  dishwasher capacity, and the following are 
not required as a test  condition:  
 (a) the use of a reference dishwasher for normalisation of 
base load items;  
 (b) the parallel operation of a reference dishwasher with the 
tested dishwasher;  
 (c) the use of a specific inlet water temperature, water 
hardness, water pressure, ambient temperature or 
humidity;  
 (d) the use of soiling agents;  
 (e) the use of detergent, rinse agent or salt; 
 (f) the use of an electric supply  at a specific voltage ;  
 (g) the use of regeneration operations;   3      
 (h) the preparation and application of soiling agents. ”. 
Amendment of Part 2 of Second Schedule  
4.  Part 2 of the Second Schedule  to the principal Regulations is 
amended — 
 (a) by inserting, immediately after sub-paragraph  (f) of 
paragraph  2, the following sub -paragraph:  
 “(g) dishwashers  — 
Number of ticks  Water consumption (litres per 
place setting)   
1 1.2 < water consumption ≤  1.5  
2 0.9 < water consumption ≤  1.2  
3 0.6 < water consumption ≤  0.9  
4 water  consumption ≤  0.6 ”; 
 (b) by inserting, immediately after the words “ CLOTHES 
WASHING MACHINES”  in th e title of Label 2 in 
paragraph  3, the words “AND DISHWASHERS” ; and 
 (c) by deleting the definition of “water consumption” in 
paragraph  4 and substituting the following definitions:  
“place setting” means  — 
 (a) where the test standard used is BS EN 50242 : 2016  
/ BS EN 60436: 2016 , the set of tableware items  
specified in Annex A of  BS EN 50242 : 2016  / BS 
EN 60436: 2016 ; and 
 (b) where the test standard used is IEC 60436 : 2015 , 
the set of tableware items specified in Annex A of  
IEC 60436 : 2015 ; 
“water consumption” means  — 
 (a) in relation to a clothes washing machin e, the 
volume of water used by the  clothes washing  
machine, as specified in the test report;  and 
 (b) in relation to a dishwasher, the volume of water 
used by the dishwasher, as specified in the test 
report.”.   4     
Amendment of Part 3 of  Second Schedule  
5.  Part 3 of the Second Schedule to the principal Regulations is 
amended by deleting paragraph 4 and substituting the following 
paragraphs:  
“4.  Every dishwasher intended for household use must be of such a 
design as to use not more than 1.5 litres of water per place setting for 
normally soiled tableware at rated dishwasher capacity . 
5.  In this Part — 
“flow rate” means the volume of water that flows out of a tap and 
mixer per minute, as specified in the test report;  
“place sett ing” means — 
 (a) where the test standard us ed is BS EN 50242: 2016 / BS 
EN 60436: 2016, the set of tableware items specified in 
Annex A of BS EN 50242: 2016 / BS EN 60436: 2016; 
and 
 (b) where the test standard used is IEC 60436: 2015, the set of 
tablew are items specified in Annex A of IEC 60436: 
2015. ”. 
[G.N. Nos. S 97/ 2005; S 703/2008; S 832/2010; 
S 161/2011; S 616/ 2013; S 721/2014; S 826/2014; 
S 55/2015; S 133/2017 ; S 336/2017 ]