Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 and comes into force on 1st April 2015.

In this Order—

• “the Act” means the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011;

• “the 1975 Act” means the Reservoirs Act 1975^f1;

• “1975 Act reservoir” means—

  1. (a)

     a controlled reservoir^f2 which was, immediately before 1st April 2015, required to be registered in a register maintained under section 2(2) of the 1975 Act; or

  2. (b)

     a controlled reservoir which—

     1. (i)

        was not, immediately before 1st April 2015, required to be registered in a register maintained under section 2(2) of the 1975 Act; and

     2. (ii)

        is, on or after that date, required to be registered in a register maintained under section 2(2) of the 1975 Act; and

• “held”, in relation to SEPA, is to be construed in the same way as “held”, in relation to an authority, in section 3(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002^f3.