The Environmental Regulation (Liability where Activity Carried Out by Arrangement with Another) (Scotland) Order 2014

Made: 19th November 2014

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 21st November 2014

Coming into force: 31st December 2014

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 39(6)(b) of the Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Environmental Regulation (Liability where Activity Carried Out by Arrangement with Another) (Scotland) Order 2014 and comes into force on 31st December 2014.

Specified activities

2

The activities listed in the Schedule are specified for the purposes of section 39 of the Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.

SCHEDULE — Specified Activities

Waste activities

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• (1) The production, collection, keeping, treatment, management, transport, delivery, acceptance, storage, deposit, disposal or recovery of waste.

• (2) Acting as a broker of or dealer in waste.

• (3) In this paragraph, “waste” means any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard.

Water activities

2

• (1) The carrying on of a water activity.

• (2) In this paragraph, “water activity” has the same meaning as in regulation 4 of the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018.

Pollution activities

3

• (1) Operating a Part A installation, Part B installation, mobile plant or solvents installation.

• (2) In this paragraph, “Part A installation”, “Part B installation”, “mobile plant” and “solvents installation” have the same meanings as in regulation 12 of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012[^f00003].

Sludge activities

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• (1) The use of sludge on agricultural land or the supply of sludge for such use.

• (2) Grazing animals, or harvesting crops, on agricultural land on which sludge or septic tank sludge has been used.

• (3) In this paragraph, “septic tank sludge”, “sludge”, and “use” have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989[^f00004].

Slurry and silage activities

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Signed

PAUL WHEELHOUSE — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 19th November 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order specifies activities for the purposes of section 39 of the Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”).

Section 39 of the 2014 Act provides that where (in the course of carrying on a regulated activity) a person (“A”) commits a relevant offence while carrying on that activity for another person (“B”), and B manages or controls the carrying on of the regulated activity, B also commits the relevant offence and is liable to be proceeded against. The Schedule to this Order specifies the regulated activities to which that section applies.

The relevant offences for the purposes of section 39 of the 2014 Act are specified in the Environmental Regulation (Relevant Offences) Scotland Order 2014, S.S.I. 2014/319.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2014 asp 3.

[^f00003]: S.S.I. 2012/360, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1989/1263, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

Editorial notes

[^key-d63e236c0b2a106d2ee9c2140b20ccd4]: Art. 1 in force at 31.12.2014, see art. 1

[^key-27000f25c3cd6ca40adeb15c5335fa38]: Art. 2 in force at 31.12.2014, see art. 1

[^key-c5479344fd2da9a6ebaa3b5e86b2bf66]: Sch. para. 1 in force at 31.12.2014, see art. 1

[^key-b85f291d16fa087749cd2402babf15ed]: Sch. para. 3 in force at 31.12.2014, see art. 1

[^key-049a128018b522adf4ac405445afe8ec]: Sch. para. 4 in force at 31.12.2014, see art. 1

[^key-3f97e9fe714f39bace94d33b67d3acfa]: Sch. para. 6 inserted (1.9.2018) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/219), reg. 1, sch. 6 para. 15 (with reg. 78, sch. 5 para. 2)

[^key-c0e6620374921c64021de1f4da8e18d8]: Sch. para. 5 revoked (1.1.2022) by The Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/412), reg. 1(2), sch. para. 1

[^key-cd70c752c21b5a5567b0e0c800afcb86]: Sch. 1 para. 2 substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 26 (with sch. 23)

Radioactive substances activity

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• (1) The carrying on of a radioactive substances activity.

• (2) In this paragraph, “radioactive substances activity” has the same meaning as given in regulation 4 of the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018.