LegalizeThe Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2005
Made: 7th June 2005
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
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PART I — General
Citation and commencement
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Interpretation
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Amendment of the Act – controlled activities
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Application of the Regulations
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Prohibition
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Duty to use water efficiently
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PART II — Authorisations
General Binding Rules
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Registration
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Water Use Licence
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Groundwater Directive
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Power of SEPA to impose authorisation
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PART III — Applications and Application Procedure
Form and content of applications for authorisation
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Advertisement of application
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Further information etc.
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Determination of application
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Time-limits for determining applications
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Determinations of applications by the Scottish Ministers
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PART IV — Modification and termination of authorisations
Review of authorisations
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Variation of authorisation
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Procedure for variation
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Request for variation
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Transfer of authorisation
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Conditions of transferred authorisations
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Surrender of authorisation
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Determination of application for surrender
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Suspension and revocation of authorisation
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PART V — Enforcement and other powers
Powers and duty to monitor, enforce etc.
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Enforcement notices
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Power of SEPA to carry out works
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Enforcement notices – rights of entry, compensation etc.
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Enforcement by the courts
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PART VI — Information and Register
Power of the Scottish Ministers and SEPA to obtain information
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Public register of information
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Confidential information
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Application for determination of commercial confidentiality
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Procedure relating to information which might be confidential
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Review of determination of commercial confidentiality
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Effect of determination
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Directions to SEPA concerning confidential information
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PART VII — Offences
Offences
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Offences by bodies corporate
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Offences – acts or default of third person
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Admissibility of evidence
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Defence to principal offences
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Power of court to order offence to be remedied
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PART VIII — Appeals
Appeals to the Scottish Ministers
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Determination of Appeals
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Effect of notices etc. during consideration of appeal
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Appeals – miscellaneous
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PART IX — General
Application to the Crown
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Application to SEPA
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Guidance to SEPA
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Notices
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Transitional, savings and supplemental provisions
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SCHEDULE 1 — Indicative list of the main pollutants
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SCHEDULE 2 — Substances referred to in regulations 4(1)(b) and 28(1)(b)(iii)
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SCHEDULE 3 — General Binding Rules
PART 1
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The operation of any weir that–
- (a) is not associated with an abstraction;
- (b) is not capable of being operated to control the water level upstream of the weir;
- (c) does not result in the creation of a height differential between the upstream and downstream water surfaces of more than one metre; and
- (d) was constructed before 1st April 2006.
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The abstraction of less than 10 m³ in any one day.
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The construction or extension of any well, borehole or other works by which water may be abstracted, or the installation or modification of any machinery or apparatus by which additional quantities of water may be abstracted, where such works are–
- (a) not intended for the purpose of abstraction; or
- (b) intended for the abstraction of less than 10 m³ in any one day; or
- (c) intended for the abstraction of less than 150 m³ in any period of one year, and the purpose of the abstraction is either–
- (i) to test for the yield of the borehole or well or the hydraulic properties of the aquifer; or
- (ii) to sample the water quality.
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The abstraction from a borehole, and any subsequent discharge of the abstracted water, where the total volume of water abstracted is less than 150 m³ in any period of one year and the purpose of the abstraction is either–
- (a) to test the yield of the borehole or well or the hydraulic properties of the aquifer; or
- (b) to sample the water quality.
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The dredging of a river, burn or ditch that–
- (a) has an average width of less than one metre along the stretch to be worked, as measured at the bottom of the channel; and
- (b) has been artificially straightened or canalised along the length which is to be worked.
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- (i) The construction and maintenance of a minor bridge over a river, burn or ditch; or
- (ii) the construction, maintenance or removal of a temporary bridge over any river, burn or ditch that has a channel width of less than 5 metres.
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The laying of a pipeline or cable by boring beneath the bed and banks of a river, burn or ditch.
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Works to control the erosion of a bank of a river, burn or ditch by revetment.
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Operating any vehicle, plant or equipment for the purposes of undertaking activity 5, 6, 7 or 8.
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Discharge of water run-off from a surface water drainage system to the water environment from construction sites, buildings, roads, yards or any other built developments
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Discharge into a surface water drainage system.
PART 2
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SCHEDULE 4
PART 1
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PART 2
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SCHEDULE 5 — Charging Scheme
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SCHEDULE 6
PART 1 — Powers
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PART 2 — Procedures etc.
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PART 3 — Issue of warrants
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PART 4 — Evidence
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PART 5 — Compensation
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SCHEDULE 7 — Compensation for Grant of Rights
Interpretation
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Period for making an application
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Form of application
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Loss and damage for which compensation payable
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Basis on which compensation assessed
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