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Paragraph 11

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

In Part 1 of this Schedule–

  • “background quantity” means, in relation to the release of a substance resulting from an activity, such quantity of that substance as is present in–

    1. (i)

      water supplied to the site where the activity is carried out;

    2. (ii)

      water abstracted for use in the activity; and

    3. (iii)

      precipitation onto the site on which the activity is carried out;

  • “Part A activity” means an activity falling within Part A of any Section in Part 1 of this Schedule;

  • “Part B activity” means an activity falling within Part B of any Section in Part 1 of this Schedule.

(2)

For the purposes of the interpretation of Part 1 of this Schedule, and unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a Section is a reference to the Section so numbered in Part 1 of this Schedule.