{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-scotland-act-2013/section-50",
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  "legislation": "asp/2013/5",
  "legislation_title": "Water Resources (Scotland) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-scotland-act-2013",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "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 any restriction or prohibition as mentioned in section 40(2)(d), so far as relevant in relation to the activities to which the authorisation relates.\n(3) In this Part—\n(a) “the 2018 Regulations” means the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018,\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) a reference to an application under the 2018 Regulations is to an application in accordance with regulations 16, 19, 22 or 25 of those Regulations.\n(4) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations modify—\n(a) subsections (1) to (3),\n(b) section 38(3)(b),\n(c) in schedule 1, paragraphs 2(5)(b)(iii), 3(2)(b)(iii) and 7(b)(ii).\n(5) Regulations may be made under subsection (4) only if the Scottish Ministers consider them to be necessary or expedient in consequence of any revocation or amendment of—\n(a) the 2018 Regulations, or\n(b) any subsequent regulations made under section 20 of the 2003 Act.\n(6) Regulations under subsection (4) are subject to the negative procedure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 50 substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 8(6)(a) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 50(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(6)(b)(i) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 50(3)(b) repealed (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 21 para. 1 (with sch. 23)"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": "Words in s. 50(3)(c) substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 8(6)(b)(ii) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 50 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(5) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 50 in force at 10.6.2013 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/50",
    "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."
}