# The Environmental Protection (Wet Wipes Containing Plastic) (Scotland) Regulations 2026, 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—
(a) any trade or profession,
(b) any activity carried on by a charity,
(c) any activity carried on by a body of persons whether corporate or unincorporated,
(d) the provision of services by or on behalf of Scottish Ministers under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978,
“charity” means anything which is a charity within the meaning of—
(a) section 106 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005,
(b) section 1(1) of the Charities Act 2011,
(c) section 1(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008,
(d) section 202 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010,
“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—
(a) supplying them, in the course of a business, to another person, or
(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,
“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), 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/75/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-wet-wipes-containing-plastic-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-2
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