Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “authorised purpose” means the purpose of determining whether an offence under regulation 3(1) (offence: supply of wet wipes containing plastic) has been committed,

• “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,

  4. (d)

     the provision of services by or on behalf of Scottish Ministers under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978^f1,

• “charity” means anything which is a charity within the meaning of—

  1. (a)

     section 106 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005^f2,

  2. (b)

     section 1(1) of the Charities Act 2011^f3,

  3. (c)

     section 1(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008^f4,

  4. (d)

     section 202 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010^f5,

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

  1. (a)

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

  2. (b)

     a manufacturing process,

• “enforcement officer” means a person authorised under regulation 10 (enforcement),

• “fixed penalty notice” means a notice offering a person the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction for an offence under regulation 3 by payment of a fixed penalty,

• “local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 (constitution of councils) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994^f6,

• “plastic” means a material consisting of polymer as defined in Article 3(5) (definitions) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)^f7, 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 sale or not, and cognate expressions are to be construed accordingly,

• “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.