Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Water (Scotland) Act 1980;

• “consumer” means a person to whom water is supplied for a purpose mentioned in Part II of these Regulations by a water authority in the discharge of its duties under Part II of the Act;

• “disinfected” means subjected to a process which removes or renders inactive pathogenic micro-organisms so as to satisfy the requirements of Part II of these Regulations in respect of the parameters listed in Table C; and cognate expressions (with the exception of the term “residual disinfectant”) shall be construed accordingly;

• “ground water” shall be construed in accordance with section 30A(1)(d) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974(^f1);

• “parameter” means a property, element, organism or substance listed in the second column of the Tables in Schedule 1 to these Regulations or in the first column of Tables 1 to 4, 6 and 7 in Schedule 2;

• “pesticides and related products” means any fungicide, herbicide or insecticide and polychlorinated biphenyls and terphenyls;

• “prescribed concentration or value”, in relation to any parameter, means the maximum or minimum concentration or value specified in relation to that parameter in the Tables in Schedule 1 as measured by reference to the unit of measurement so specified;

• “sampling point” means the point, being a consumer’s tap, that is determined for the purposes of Part IV of these Regulations;

• “service reservoir” means a reservoir (including a water tower) which contains water that has been treated with a view to complying with regulation 23 below, but does not include a reservoir at a treatment works;

• “supply point” means any point, not being a sampling point, which the Secretary of State may, in accordance with regulation 12, authorise for the purposes of regulation 10;

• “water supply zone” means an area that is designated by a water authority for the purposes of these Regulations, being an area in which, in the authority’s estimation, not more than 50,000 people reside and in which all the premises supplied with water for domestic purposes by that authority are normally supplied from the same source or combination of sources;

• “year” means calendar year;

and any reference to a Table followed by a letter or a number is reference to the Table that bears that letter or number in Schedule 1 or 2 to these Regulations.