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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-batteries-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2009/9780111005064",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Batteries (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-batteries-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the 1990 Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990;\n“the 1995 Act” means the Environment Act 1995;\n“the 1994 Regulations” means the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994;\n“the 2000 Regulations” means the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000;\n“the 2003 Regulations” means the Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003;\n“automotive battery” means any battery used for automotive starter, lighting or ignition power;\n“Batteries Directive” means Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on batteries and accumulators;\n“battery” means any source of electrical energy generated by direct conversion of chemical energy and consisting of one or more primary battery cells (non-rechargeable) or one or more secondary battery cells (rechargeable; an accumulator), but does not include any battery excluded from the scope of the Batteries Directive by Article 2(2) of that Directive;\n“battery pack” means any set of batteries that are connected together or encapsulated within an outer casing so as to form a complete unit that the end-user is not intended to split up or open;\n“industrial battery” means any battery or battery pack which is–\n(a) designed exclusively for industrial or professional uses;\n(b) used as a source of power for propulsion in an electric vehicle;\n(c) unsealed but is not an automotive battery; or\n(d) sealed but is not a portable battery;\n“landfill” means a landfill to which the 2003 Regulations apply;\n“landfill permit” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the 2003 Regulations;\n“portable battery” means any battery or battery pack which–\n(a) is sealed;\n(b) can be hand-carried by an average natural person without difficulty; and\n(c) is neither an automotive nor an industrial battery;\n“recycling” means the reprocessing in a production process of waste materials for their original purpose or for other purposes, but excluding energy recovery;\n“site licence” has the same meaning as in Part II of the 1990 Act;\n“treatment” means any activity carried out on waste batteries after they have been handed over to a facility for sorting, preparation for treatment or preparation for disposal; and\n“waste battery” means any battery which is waste within the meaning of Article 1(1)(a) of Directive 2006/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 43, as relevantly amended by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25) Schedule 22 paragraph 64."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 25, as relevantly amended by the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (c. 24), Schedule 2, paragraph 17; S.S.I. 2000/323, Schedule 10(1), paragraph 5(2); S.I. 2005/925, Schedule 6, paragraph 1(3); S.S.I. 2006/181, Schedule I(IV), paragraph 8(3); S.S.I. 2006/541, regulation 10(2); and S.I. 2006/3289, regulation 4(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/1056, as relevantly amended by S.I. 1996/972, Schedule 3, paragraph 1; S.S.I. 2000/323, Schedule 10(2), paragraph 11(2); S.S.I. 2003/171, regulation 4; S.S.I. 2003/593, regulation 7(2); S.S.I. 2005/22, regulation 6(2); S.S.I. 2006/128, regulation 3; S.S.I. 2006/541, regulation 3 and Schedule 1, paragraph 1; and S.S.I. 2007/172, regulation 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2000/323, as relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2002/493, regulation 3; S.S.I. 2003/146, regulation 3; S.S.I. 2003/170, regulation 6; S.S.I. 2003/235, Schedule 6, paragraph 3(2); S.S.I. 2004/26, regulation 10; S.S.I. 2004/112, regulation 3(2); and S.S.I. 2005/340, regulation 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2003/235, as relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2003/343, regulation 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "O.J.. L 266, 26.9.2006, p.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "O.J. L 114, 27.4.2006, p.9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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