Talked to a sales rep today, apparently UV sterilizers were brought in to NZ's commercial scene after people started coming down with Legionellosis in a newly built police station with a tempered hot water ring main.
You can only get Legionella from breathing the bacteria (not drinking it), so they thought that maybe it was the mist coming off the cooling towers - after a lot of testing and monitoring they realised people were actually getting it from the steam in the showers!
So in came the UV sterilizers to kill the bad bugs, installed on the return line.
Although there doesn't seem to be a code or standard they are generally included in the specs for large commercial ring mains by the designer so that it doesn't happen again!
I really cant understand why this isn't standard regulation, unless im missing something, or there is still something I havn't found.... They are touched on in water supplies ie. tank water etc, but not for heated water.