Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations

Marginal note:Accredited laboratory

16 Any determination referred to in subsection 10(6) or 11(3) or (4) or paragraph 34(1)(a) or (b) or subsection 34(4) and any other determination necessary to make any of those determinations — other than the determination of the pH of water necessary to make the determination referred to in subsection 34(3) — must be performed by a laboratory that meets the following conditions at the time of the determination:

• (a) the laboratory is accredited

  • (i) under the International Organization for Standardization standard ISO/IEC 17025, entitled General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, by an accrediting body that is a signatory to the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Mutual Recognition Arrangement, or

  • (ii) under the Environment Quality Act, CQLR, c. Q-2; and

• (b) the scope of the accreditation of the laboratory includes the parameters that are determined.