{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-generating-stations-applications-for-variation-of-consent-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-generating-stations-applications-for-variation-of-consent-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/304",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity Generating Stations (Applications for Variation of Consent) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-generating-stations-applications-for-variation-of-consent-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Electricity Act 1989;\n“applicant” means, in relation to a variation application, the person who made the application;\n“the EIA Regulations” means the Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017;\n...\n“generating station” includes a proposed generating station;\n“offshore generating station” means a generating station that is, or is to be, located within—\n(a)a Renewable Energy Zone; or\n(b)waters in or adjacent to Scotland which are between the mean low water mark and the seaward limits of the territorial sea;\n“proposed development” means—\n(a)the generating station, or extension of a generating station, which the applicant would be authorised to construct under a relevant section 36 consent if that consent were varied as requested in a variation application;\n(b)the way in which a generating station so constructed or extended would be authorised to be operated under the relevant section 36 consent as so varied; and\n(c)any section 57 development in respect of which section 36 consent is not required;\n“relevant section 36 consent”, in relation to an application, means the section 36 consent in respect of which that application is made;\n“section 36 consent” means a consent under section 36 of the Act to construct, extend or operate a generating station including any variations to that consent already made under section 36C(4) of the Act;\n“section 57 development” means any development in respect of which—\n(a)a section 57 direction was given on granting the relevant section 36 consent; or\n(b)the applicant, on making a variation application, requests the Scottish Ministers to give a section 57 direction;\n“section 57 direction” means a direction under section 57(2) or (2ZA) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (deemed planning permission for development with government authorisation); and\n“variation application” means an application made to the Scottish Ministers under section 36C(1) of the Act (variation of section 36 consents) to vary a section 36 consent.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 substituted (16.5.2017) by The Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/101), regs. 1(1), 42(2)(a) (with regs. 1(2), 27, 28, 40, 41)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (16.5.2017) by virtue of The Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/101), regs. 1(1), 42(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1997 c.8. Section 57(2) and (2ZA) were substituted by section 21(5) of the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (c.27)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/304/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:32.194404+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}