{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/urban-waste-water-treatment-scotland-regulations-1994/regulation-2", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/urban-waste-water-treatment-scotland-regulations-1994/regulation-2.json", "legislation": "uksi/1994/2842", "legislation_title": "The Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Regulations 1994", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/urban-waste-water-treatment-scotland-regulations-1994", "path": "regulation/2", "kind": "regulation", "number": "2", "heading": "Interpretation", "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“agglomeration” means an area where the population and/or economic activities are sufficiently concentrated for urban waste water to be collected and conducted to an urban waste water treatment plant or to a final discharge point;\n“coastal waters” means the waters outside the low-water line or the outer limit of an estuary;\n“collecting system” means a system of conduits which collects and conducts urban waste water;\n“the Directive” means Council Directive 91/271/EEC concerning urban waste water treatment , as last relevantly amended by Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and references to other Community Directives are references to Directives other than Council Directive 91/271/EEC;\n“domestic waste water” means waste water from residential settlements and services which originates predominantly from the human metabolism and from household activities;\n“estuary” means the transitional area at the mouth of a river between fresh-water and coastal waters, the outer (seaward) limits of which are shown on the maps kept in accordance with regulation 12;\n“eutrophication” means the enrichment of water by nutrients, especially compounds of nitrogen and/or phosphorus, causing an accelerated growth of algae and higher forms of plant life to produce an undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water and to the quality of the water concerned;\n“high natural dispersion area” has the meaning given by regulation 3;\n“industrial waste water” means any waste water which is discharged from premises used for carrying on any trade or industry, other than domestic waste water and run-off rain water;\n...\n“population equivalent” is a measurement of organic biodegradable load, and a population equivalent of 1(1p.e.) is the organic biodegradable load having a five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) of 60g of oxygen per day, the load being calculated on the basis of the maximum average weekly load entering the treatment plant during the year, excluding unusual situations such as those due to heavy rain;\n“Scottish Water” means the body corporate established by section 20(1) of the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002,\n...\n“secondary treatment” means treatment of urban waste water by a process generally involving biological treatment with a secondary settlement or other process in which the requirements established in Table 1 in Schedule 3 are respected;\n“sensitive area” has the meaning given by regulation 3;\n“SEPA” means the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;\n“sludge” means residual sludge, whether treated or untreated, from urban waste water treatment plants;\n“urban waste water” means domestic waste water or the mixture of domestic waste water with industrial waste water and/or run-off rain water;\nand other expressions used in these Regulations and in the Directive have the same meaning as in the Directive.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations.", "extent": "S", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "F", "label": "F1", "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (28.2.2019) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(1), 7(2)(a)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F2", "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.7.2019) by The Environment (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/175), regs. 1(1)(a), 2" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F3", "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (28.2.2019) by virtue of The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(1), 7(2)(b)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F4", "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (28.2.2019) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(1), 7(2)(c)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F5", "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) cease to have effect (1.4.1996) by virtue of The Environment Act 1995 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/973), reg. 1, Sch. para. 19(2)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F6", "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by The Environment Act 1995 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/973), reg. 1, Sch. para. 19(2)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F7", "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (28.2.2019) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(1), 7(2)(d)" }, { "type": "I", "label": "I1", "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 30.11.1994, see reg. 1" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "OJ No. L135, 30.5.91, p.40." } ], "outstanding_effects": [], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2842/regulation/2", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:23:41.288145+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." }