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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/urban-waste-water-treatment-scotland-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/273",
  "legislation_title": "The Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/urban-waste-water-treatment-scotland-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 27th June 2003.\n(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.\n(3) In these Regulations–\n“the principal Regulations” means the Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Regulations 1994;\n“SEPA” means the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;\nand any word or expression used in the principal Regulations shall have the same meaning as it has in those Regulations.\n(4) Any reference in these Regulations to anything done in writing or produced in written form includes a reference to an electronic communication, as defined in the Electronic Communications Act 2000, which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/2842, as amended by S.I. 1996/973, paragraph 19 of the Schedule."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/273/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:36:22.012552+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."
}