The 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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Payment of compensation and determination of disputes

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SCHEDULE 8 — Register

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SCHEDULE 9 — Procedures in connection with appeals to the Scottish Ministers

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Hearing procedure

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Procedure for written representations

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Determination and publication of appeal

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SCHEDULE 10 — Transitional, Savings and Supplemental Provisions

PART 1 — Water Environment

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PART 2 — Pollution Control

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PART 3 — Abstractions and Impoundments

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Signed

LEWIS MACDONALD — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 7th June 2005

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2003 asp 3; amended by section 66 and para 6 of Schedule 2 to the Anti Social Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 8).

[^f00002]: O.J. No. L 327, 22.12.2000, p.1; amended by decision 2455/2001/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20th November 2001 establishing the list of priority substances in the field of water policy and amending Directive 2000/60/EC (O.J. No. L 331, 15.12.2001, p.1).

[^f00003]: O.J. L 020, 26.1.80, p.43.

[^f00004]: 2000 c. 7; amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21).

[^f00005]: 1985 c. 48; amended by the Statute Law Repeals Act 1993 (c. 50), the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43), the Petroleum Act 1998 (c. 17) and the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28).

[^f00006]: O.J. No. L 020, 26.1.80, p.43.

[^f00007]: 1973 c. 65; amended by the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 4) and the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63).

[^f00008]: The Northumbria River Basin District was identified by virtue of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3245).

[^f00009]: The Solway Tweed River Basin District was identified by virtue of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/99).

[^f00010]: S.I. 2003/3245.

[^f00011]: S.I. 2004/99.

[^f00012]: S.I. 2003/3245.

[^f00013]: S.I. 2004/99.

[^f00014]: 1995 c. 25, amended by the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/323).

[^f00015]: S.I. 1999/1379.

[^f00016]: 1968 c. 47.

[^f00017]: S.I. 2003/3245.

[^f00018]: S.I. 2004/99.

[^f00019]: 2004 asp 6.

[^f00020]: S.I. 1990/126, amended by S.I. 1998/1344.

[^f00021]: S.I. 1991/1609, amended by S.I. 1996/973.

[^f00022]: S.I. 1992/574.

[^f00023]: S.I. 1994/2716, amended by 2004 asp 6; S.I. 1996/973; S.S.I. 2000/323 and 2004/475.

[^f00024]: S.I. 1994/2842, amended by S.I. 1996/973; and S.S.I. 2003/273.

[^f00025]: S.I. 1997/2407.

[^f00026]: S.I. 1997/2471, amended by S.S.I. 2003/85.

[^f00027]: S.I. 1998/250.

[^f00028]: S.I. 1998/1344.

[^f00029]: S.S.I. 2002/276.

[^f00030]: S.S.I. 2002/546.

[^f00031]: S.S.I. 2003/51, amended by S.S.I. 2003/169.

[^f00032]: S.S.I. 2003/531.

[^f00033]: 1995 c. 25; amended by the Scotland (Consequential Modifications No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820).

[^f00034]: S.I. 2003/3245.

[^f00035]: S.I. 2004/99.

[^f00036]: 1963 c. 51; amended by the New Towns Act 1966 (c. 44); the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1969 (c. 30); the Tribunals and Enquiries Act 1971 (c. 62); the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 52); the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22); the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30); the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65); the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26); the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43); the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34); the Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 11); and the Abolition of Feudal Tenure (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5).

[^f00037]: 1947 c. 42; as amended by the Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6); the Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (c. 5); the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 (c. 66); the War Damage Act 1964 (c. 25); the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 56); the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21); the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 23); the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44); the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29); the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19); the Coal Industry Act 1994 (c. 21); the Postal Services Act 2000 (c. 26); the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 2) and the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820).

[^f00038]: 1970 c. 35.

[^f00039]: 1973 c. 65.

[^f00040]: 1974 c. 40; amended by section 168 and Schedule 23 of the Water Act 1989 (c. 15) and Schedule 22 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25).

[^f00041]: A copy of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 (Fees and Charges)(Scotland) Scheme 2005 is published on SEPA’s website and can be found at the following address: www.sepa.org.uk/pdf/charging/legal/copa_2005.pdf. Copies can also be obtained from SEPA Corporate Office, Erskine Court, Castle Business Park, Stirling FK9 4TR.

[^f00042]: S.I. 1998/2746, amended by S.S.I. 2000/323 and 2005/22.

[^f00043]: 1990 c. 43; amended by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (c. 24); the Anti Social Behaviour (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 8) and the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/323).

[^f00044]: 1993 c. 12, amended by the Clean Air Act 1993 (c. 11), the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), the Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 11), the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28) and the Statute Law (Repeals Act 2004 (c. 14).

[^f00045]: S.S.I. 2000/323; amended by paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to the Anti Social Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 8), S.S.I. 2002/493, 2003/146, 170, 221, 235 and 411, 2004/26, 110, 112, 512 and 2005/101.

[^f00046]: S.I. 1994/1056; amended by S.I. 1994/1137, 1995/288, 1950, 1996/593, 634, 916, 972, 973, 1279; 1997/351, 2203, 1998/606, 2746 and S.S.I. 2000/323, 2003/170, 171 and 2005/22.

Editorial notes

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