Regulation 1 Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation

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

reg. 1(2) words omitted by Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) 2018 reg. 6(2)(a)
reg. 1(2) words inserted by Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) 2018 reg. 6(2)(b)
reg. 1(2) words inserted by Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) 2018 reg. 6(2)(c)

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Trade Effluent (Asbestos) (Scotland) Regulations 1993, shall come into force on 30th June 1993 and shall extend to Scotland only.

(2)

In these Regulations–

“the 1968 Act” means the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968(^f1);
“asbestos” means any of the following fibrous silicates, namely, crocidolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, amosite and tremolite;
“local authority” has the same meaning as in the 1968 Act;
and other expressions used in the 1968 Act or in Council Directive 87/217/EEC(^f2) shall have the same meaning respectively as in that Act or Directive.

(3)

Any reference in these Regulations–

(a)

to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations;

(b)

to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation in which the reference is made.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1968 c. 47.
f2: O.J. No.L85, 19 3 87, p.40.