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Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002

ONTARIO REGULATION 173/03

Amended to O. Reg. 241/07

SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND DAY NURSERIES

Note: This Regulation was revoked on June 7, 2007. See: O. Reg. 241/07, s. 1.

This is the English version of a bilingual regulation.

Interpretation

1. (1) In this Regulation,

“day nursery” means a day nursery as defined in the Day Nurseries Act; (“garderie”)

“private school” means a private school as defined in the Education Act; (“école privée”)

“school” means a school as defined in the Education Act. (“école”) O. Reg. 173/03, s. 1 (1).

(2) For the purposes of this Regulation, a school or private school is open on a day if, at any time during that day, programs for children under 18 years of age are held at the school or private school. O. Reg. 173/03, s. 1 (2).

(3) For the purposes of this Regulation, a day nursery is open on a day if, at any time during that day, any of the children cared for are present in the day nursery. O. Reg. 173/03, s. 1 (3).

Weekly flushing

2. (1) The operator of a school, private school or day nursery shall ensure that,

(a) the plumbing is flushed on the first day that the school, private school or day nursery is open in each week;

(b) the flushing continues until the temperature of the water stabilizes; and

(c) the flushing is completed before the school, private school or day nursery opens for the day. O. Reg. 173/03, s. 2 (1).

(2) For the purpose of clause (1) (a), plumbing may be flushed by opening the last cold water tap on each branch or each run of pipe in the plumbing. O. Reg. 173/03, s. 2 (2).

Records

3. (1) The operator of a school, private school or day nursery shall ensure that a record is made of the date and time of every flushing required by section 2 and the name of the person who performed the flushing. O. Reg. 173/03, s. 3 (1).

(2) The operator of the school, private school or day nursery shall ensure that every record made under subsection (1) is kept for at least five years. O. Reg. 173/03, s. 3 (2).

Exemption

4. This Regulation does not apply to a school, private school or day nursery that obtains water from a drinking-water system if the exemption provided by section 8 of Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking-Water Systems) applies to the system. O. Reg. 173/03, s. 4.

5. Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of the English version of this Regulation). O. Reg. 173/03, s. 5.

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