{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-landfill-tax-prescribed-landfill-site-activities-order-2014/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-landfill-tax-prescribed-landfill-site-activities-order-2014/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/367",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Landfill Tax (Prescribed Landfill Site Activities) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-landfill-tax-prescribed-landfill-site-activities-order-2014",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“cell bund” or “cell wall” means a structure within a disposal area which separates or contains units of waste;\n“disposal area” means any area of a landfill site where any landfill disposal takes place;\n“hard standing” means a base within a landfill site on which any landfill site activity such as sorting, treatment, processing, storage or recycling is carried out;\n“haul road” means any road within a landfill site which gives access to a disposal area;\n“impermeable layer” means the geological barrier, whether formed of a single mineral layer or such mineral layer combined with an artificial sealing liner or cap, located at the external facing perimeter of a landfill cell, that has the function of preventing the escape of liquids or gases from that landfill cell;\n“landfill cell” means a unit or structure within a landfill site formed of an impermeable layer at its base and sides and, save where the cell only contains inert material, at the top of the unit or structure;\n“LT(S) Act 2014” means the Landfill Tax (Scotland) Act 2014; and\n“screening bund” means any structure on a landfill site (whether below or above ground) put in place to protect or conceal any landfill site activity or to reduce nuisance from noise.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (1.7.2022 at 5:00 p.m.) by The Scottish Landfill Tax (Prescribed Landfill Site Activities) Amendment Order 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/233), arts. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (1.7.2022 at 5:00 p.m.) by The Scottish Landfill Tax (Prescribed Landfill Site Activities) Amendment Order 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/233), arts. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.4.2015, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“landfill site activity” is defined in section 6(2) of the LT(S) Act 2014."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/367/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:32:05.967089+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."
}