{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-scotland-act-2013/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-scotland-act-2013/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2013/5",
  "legislation_title": "Water Resources (Scotland) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-scotland-act-2013",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "2018 Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in this Part affects any requirement for an authorisation under the 2018 Regulations.\n(2) An authorisation under the 2018 Regulations is subject to approval of a qualifying abstraction by the Scottish Ministers under this Part, so far as relevant in relation to the activities to which the authorisation relates (except where the authorisation exempts the abstraction under section 7(1)).\n(3) In this Part—\n(a) “the 2018 Regulations” means the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018,\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 21 substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 8(4)(a) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 21(3)(a) substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 8(4)(b) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 21(3)(b) repealed (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 21 para. 1 (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 21(4)(5) repealed (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 21 para. 1 (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 21 heading substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 8(3) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 in force at 10.6.2013 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2013/163, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2014/3",
      "affecting_title": "Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2013/5/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:31.281987+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."
}