The Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2015

Made: 1st September 2015

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 2nd September 2015

Coming into force: 1st October 2015

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 116(1) of the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2015 and comes into force on 1st October 2015.

Appointed day

2

1st October 2015 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011—

• (a) section 18 (provisional risk designation);

• (b) section 19 (first risk designation);

• (c) section 20 (periodic review of risk designations);

• (d) section 21 (decision following a periodic review);

• (e) section 22(1), (2) and (3) (risk designation and periodic review: matters to be taken into account);

• (f) section 23(1) to (7) (review of SEPA’s decisions giving risk designations);

• (g) section 24(1) to (6) (appeal to the Scottish Ministers following SEPA’s review);

• (h) section 26(1) (high-risk reservoirs, medium risk reservoirs and low-risk reservoirs: further provision); and

• (i) section 91(2)(b) (powers of entry in relation to risk designation).

Signed

AILEEN MCLEOD — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 1st September 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force on 1st October 2015 the provisions of the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011 (“the Act”) specified in article 2. In particular, it brings into force provisions which require the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to give each controlled reservoir registered under the Act a risk designation.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2011 asp 9.