Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations –

• “the 1989 Act” means the Water Act 1989;

• “asbestos” means any of the fibrous silicates, namely, crocidolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, amosite and tremolite; and

• “background concentration”, in relation to any substance, means such concentration of the substance as would, but for anything done on the premises in question, be present in the effluent discharged from those premises; and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, includes such concentrations of the substance as are present –

  1. (a)

     in water supplied to the premises;

  2. (b)

     in water abstracted for use in the premises; and

  3. (c)

     in precipitation onto the site within which the premises are situated.