{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-scotland-act-2011-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-scotland-act-2011-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/63",
  "legislation_title": "The Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reservoirs-scotland-act-2011-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) 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.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011;\n“the 1975 Act” means the Reservoirs Act 1975;\n“1975 Act reservoir” means—\n(a) a controlled reservoir which was, immediately before 1st April 2015, required to be registered in a register maintained under section 2(2) of the 1975 Act; or\n(b) a controlled reservoir which—\n(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\n(ii) is, on or after that date, required to be registered in a register maintained under section 2(2) of the 1975 Act; and\n“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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c.23; section 2(2) of the 1975 Act was relevantly amended by the Water Act 2003 (c.37), section 74(1)(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 1 and 2 of the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011 define what is a “controlled reservoir” for the purposes of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2002 asp 13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/63/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:04.969385+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."
}