Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations—

• “authorised person” means a person authorised by the Department in accordance with Article 72 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;

• “business” includes—

  1. (a)

     any trade or profession;

  2. (b)

     any activity carried on by a charity;

  3. (c)

     any activity carried on by a body of persons whether corporate or unincorporated; and

  4. (d)

     the provision of services by or on behalf of the Department of Health under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972^f1;

• “charity” means—

  1. (a)

     anything which is a charity—

     1. (i)

        within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008^f2;

     2. (ii)

        within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Charities Act 2011^f3;

     3. (iii)

        within the meaning of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005^f4; or

     4. (iv)

        within the meaning of section 202 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010^f5;

• “the Department” means the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;

• “end user” means any person to whom wet wipes containing plastic are offered or supplied, other than a person to whom they are offered or supplied for the purposes of—

  1. (a)

     supplying it, in the course of a business, to another person; or

  2. (b)

     a manufacturing process;

• “the Order” means the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;

• “plastic” means a material consisting of polymer as defined in Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restrictions of Chemicals (REACH)^f6, to which additives or other substances may have been added, and which can function as a main structural component of final products, with the exception of natural polymers that have not been chemically modified;

• “supply” means supply, whether by way of sale or otherwise;

• “wet wipe” means a non-woven piece of fabric which has been pre-wetted and which is not designed or intended to be re-used.