# The Environment Act 1995 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996, Paragraph 19: The Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Regulations 1994


(1) The Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Regulations 1994 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) the definition of “river purification authority” shall cease to have effect and there shall be inserted at the appropriate place—
““SEPA” means the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;”.
(3) For the words “every river purification authority”, “the river purification authority”, “a river purification authority”, “river purification authority”, “every authority” and “the authority”, in each place where they occur in the undernoted provisions there shall be substituted “SEPA”—
regulation 3(1) and (3);
regulation 4(2);
regulation 5(3), (5) and (6);
regulation 6(2), (3) and (4);
regulation 8(2) and (3);
regulation 11(1) and (3);
regulation 12;
regulation 13(1);
Schedule 3, Part II, paragraph 1(a) and (c).
(4) In regulations 4(2)(a) (duty to provide and maintain collecting systems) and 5(5)(b) (requirements as to provision of treatment), the words “within whose area the discharges are made” shall cease to have effect.
(5) In regulation 5(3) (requirements as to provision of treatment), the words “within whose area the plants are situated” shall cease to have effect.
(6) Regulations 6(6) (Secretary of State’s consent) and 8(5) (discharge of certain waste) shall cease to have effect.
(7) In regulation 11(1)(a) to (d) (monitoring), the words “within its area” in each place where they occur shall cease to have effect.
(8) In regulation 12(deposit of maps and certificates)—
(a) the words “at its principal office” shall cease to have effect; and
(b) in paragraph (a), the words “wholly or partly within its area” shall cease to have effect.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/973/schedule/paragraph/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996/schedule/paragraph-19
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