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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-scotland-act-2009/section-3",
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  "legislation": "asp/2009/6",
  "legislation_title": "Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-scotland-act-2009",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "“Flood” and “flood risk”",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“flood” means the temporary covering by water from any source of land not normally covered by water, but does not include a flood solely from a sewerage system (and related expressions such as “flooding” are to be construed accordingly),\n“flood risk” means the combination of the probability of a flood and of the potential adverse consequences, associated with a flood, for human health, the environment, cultural heritage and economic activity,\n“flood solely from a sewerage system” means the temporary covering of land by sewage caused solely by a failure in or blockage of a sewerage system which is not connected with any loading on the system by external hydraulic factors (for example by heavier than usual rainfall or higher than usual river levels).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/6/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:38.939244+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."
}