- accounting records
has the same meaning as in section 45 above;
- accounting year
has the same meaning as in section 45 above;
- air quality objectives
means objectives prescribed by virtue of section 87(2)(b) above;
- air quality partner
has the meaning given by section 85A(1);
- air quality review
means a review under section 82 or 85 above;
- air quality standards
means standards prescribed by virtue of section 87(2)(a) above;
- apparatus
includes any meter or other device for measuring, assessing, determining, recording or enabling to be recorded, the volume, temperature, radioactivity, rate, nature, origin, composition or effect of any substance, flow, discharge, emission, deposit or abstraction;
- appear
means appear to the enforcing authority, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly. 78L 1 A person on whom a remediation notice is served may, within the period of twenty-one days beginning with the day on which the notice is served, appeal against the notice— a if it was served by a local authority, to a magistrates’ court or, in Scotland, to the sheriff by way of summary application;
- appointed person
means a person appointed under section 114(1)(a) of this Act;
- appropriate agency
means the Agency or the Natural Resources Body for Wales;
- appropriate person
means any person who is an appropriate person, determined in accordance with section 78F below, to bear responsibility for any thing which is to be done by way of remediation in any particular case;
- approval
includes a provisional approval;
- approved Rate Support Grant Report
means a Rate Support Grant Report which has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons;
- approved supplementary report
means a supplementary report which has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons;
- authorisation
includes any consent or licence;
- authorised activity
means any activity to which an environmental licence relates. •... •...
- authorised person
means a person authorised under section 108 above and includes a person designated under paragraph 2 of Schedule 18 to this Act;
- building
includes structure;
- by-wash
means a passage through which water flows.”
- charging authority
means the Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or SEPA;
- charging notice
has the meaning given by section 78P(3)(b) below;
- charging scheme
means a scheme made under section 41 or 41A and “charging authority” means the body that makes or proposes to make a charging scheme.
- combined authority
has the meaning it has in Part 6 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (see section 120 of that Act).
- combined county authority
means a combined county authority established under section 9(1) of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023.
- compensation water
has the same meaning as in section 77 above;
- condition of a relevant licence
includes any requirement to which a person is subject under, by virtue of or in consequence of a relevant licence;
- conservancy authority
has the meaning given by section 221(1) of the 1991 Act;
- controlled waters
has the same meaning as in Part III of this Act;
- corporate joint committee
means a corporate joint committee to which Part 6 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 applies by virtue of regulations under Part 5 of the Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021.
- costs
includes— (a) costs to any person;
- creditor
has the same meaning as in the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970;
- Crown or Duchy interest
means an interest which belongs to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or of the Duchy of Lancaster, or to the Duchy of Cornwall, or belonging to a government department or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department;
- Crown premises
means premises held by or on behalf of the Crown. 10 The provisions of subsection (3) of section 293 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (questions relating to Crown application) as to the determination of questions shall apply for the purposes of this section.”
- designated area
has the meaning given by section 83(1) above;
- designated person
means an authorised person, within the meaning of section 108 of this Act and includes a person designated by virtue of paragraph 2 below;
- devolved Welsh authority
has the same meaning as in the Government of Wales Act 2006 (see, in particular, section 157A of that Act);
- discharge consent
has the same meaning as in section 91 above.”
- disposal licence
means a licence issued in pursuance of section 5 of this Act;
- disputed matter
means any matter which—
- document
includes anything in which information of any description is recorded (by any means) and any part of such a thing;
- domestic property
has the meaning given by section 75(5)(a) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990;
- dormant site
means a Phase I or Phase II site in, on or under which no minerals development has been carried out to any substantial extent at any time in the period beginning on 22nd February 1982 and ending with 6th June 1995 otherwise than by virtue of a planning permission which is not a relevant planning permission relating to the site;
- drain
has the same meaning as in the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;” ““sewer” has the same meaning as in the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;”
- drainage
includes— (a) defence against water (including sea water);
- drought permit
means a drought permit under this section;
- duly prescribed
means prescribed by a Rate Support Grant Report or a supplementary report;
- electoral arrangements
means any electoral arrangements within the meaning of Part 3 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 or any corresponding arrangements in relation to any area in Wales;
- eligible function
means any function of a Minister of the Crown which the Secretary of State, having regard to the functions conferred or imposed upon the new Agency in question under or by virtue of this Act or any other enactment, considers can appropriately be exercised by that new Agency (or any of its employees) on behalf of that Minister;
- emergency
means a case in which it appears to the authorised person in question— (a) that there is an immediate risk of serious harm or that circumstances exist which are likely to endanger life or health, and (b) that immediate entry to any premises is necessary to verify the existence of that risk or those circumstances or to ascertain the cause of that risk or those circumstances or to effect a remedy, and for this purpose “serious harm” means— (a) serious pollution of the environment, (b) serious harm to the environment, (c) serious flooding, (d) serious harm to human health, or (e) a serious detrimental impact on drainage;
- enactment
includes an enactment contained in an Act passed after this Act.
- enforcing authority
means— (a) the Secretary of State;
- English National Park authority
means a National Park authority for a National Park in England.
- English or Welsh authorised person
means a person authorised under subsection (1) or (2) by the Secretary of State, the Welsh Ministers, the Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales, a waste collection authority or a local enforcing authority in England or Wales;
- English waste collection authority
has the same meaning as in section 45A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990;
- environmental conservation
means conservation— (a) of the natural beauty or amenity, or flora or fauna, of England or Wales;
- environmental licence
has the same meaning as it has in Part I above as it applies in relation to the Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or SEPA, as the case may be;
- exempt facility
has the meaning given in regulation 5 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations;
- financial year
means a period of twelve months ending with 31st March;
- first review date
means the date set by the authority in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) below as the first review date for the purposes of the first periodic review of the mineral permissions relating to a mining site.
- fish farm
has the same meaning as in the Diseases of Fish Act 1937;” “b “screen” means a grating or other device which, or any apparatus the operation of which, prevents— a the passage of salmon or migratory trout, and b if the screen is required in connection with a fish farm, the passage of any fish farmed at that fish farm, or any combination of devices or apparatus which, taken together, achieve that result;”
- fixed penalty
means— ((a)) a penalty of such amount as may be prescribed (whether by being specified in, or made calculable under, regulations), or ((b)) a penalty of such amount falling within a range prescribed in regulations as is specified in a fixed penalty notice;
- fixed penalty notice
means a notice offering a person an opportunity to discharge any liability to conviction for a fixed penalty offence by payment of a penalty of a prescribed amount or an amount falling within a range prescribed in regulations;
- fixed penalty offence
means, subject to sub-paragraph (2) above, any offence (whether under or by virtue of this Part or any other enactment) which is for the time being prescribed as a fixed penalty offence;
- functions
includes powers and duties;
- grating
means a device in respect of which there is in force, immediately before the substitution date, an approval given for the purposes of the definition of “grating” in section 41(1) of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 as it had effect before that date;
- harbour authority
has the meaning given by section 221(1) of the 1991 Act;
- Harm
means harm to the health of living organisms or other interference with the ecological systems of which they form part and, in the case of man, includes harm to his property. 5 The questions— a what harm is to be regarded as “significant”, b whether the possibility of significant harm being caused is “significant”, c whether pollution of controlled waters is being, or is likely to be caused, shall be determined in accordance with guidance issued for the purpose by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 78YA below. 6 Without prejudice to the guidance that may be issued under subsection (5) above, guidance under paragraph (a) of that subsection may make provision for different degrees of importance to be assigned to, or for the disregard of,— a different descriptions of living organisms or ecological systems;
- hedgerow
includes any stretch of hedgerow;
- heritable security
has the same meaning as in the Conveyancing and Feudal Reform (Scotland) Act 1970;
- holder
means the producer of the waste or the person who is in possession of it;
- industrial, trade or business premises
means premises used for any industrial, trade or business purposes or premises not so used on which matter is burnt in connection with any industrial, trade or business process, and premises are used for industrial purposes where they are used for the purposes of any treatment or process as well as where they are used for the purpose of manufacturing. 7 No order shall be made under subsection (4) above unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament. 78N 1 Where this section applies, the enforcing authority shall itself have power, in a case falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of section 78E(1) above, to do what is appropriate by way of remediation to the relevant land or waters. 2 Subsection (1) above shall not confer power on the enforcing authority to do anything by way of remediation if the authority would, in the particular case, be precluded by section 78YB below from serving a remediation notice requiring that thing to be done. 3 This section applies in each of the following cases, that is to say— a where the enforcing authority considers it necessary to do anything itself by
- inland navigation
has the same meaning as in section 77 above.”
- interest
means interest at the rate determined by the enforcing authority under subsection (4) above;
- local Act
includes enactments in a public general Act which amend a local Act;
- local authority
means— (a) the council of a county, county borough, district, London borough, parish or community;
- local enforcing authority
means— (a) (b) a local authority, within the meaning of Part IIA of that Act, in its capacity as an enforcing authority for the purposes of that Part;
- local government area
means the area of any principal council (within the meaning of that Part) or parish council or any area in Wales for which any council carries out functions of local government.
- local planning authority
has the same meaning as in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
- local statutory provision
means— (a) a provision of a local Act (including an Act confirming a provisional order);
- main river
means a main river within the meaning of Part IV of the 1991 Act;
- marine environmental purposes
means the purposes— a of conserving or enhancing the natural beauty or amenity of marine or coastal areas (including their geological or physiographical features) or of any features of archaeological or historic interest in such areas;
- marine or aquatic environmental purposes
means— a the conservation or enhancement of the natural beauty or amenity of marine or coastal, or aquatic or waterside, areas (including their geological or physiographical features) or of any features of archaeological or historic interest in such areas;
- miles
means international nautical miles of 1,852 metres;
- mine
has the same meaning as in the Mines and Quarries Act 1954. 161B 1 A works notice may require a person to carry out works or operations in relation to any land or waters notwithstanding that he is not entitled to carry out those works or operations. 2 Any person whose consent is required before any works or operations required by a works notice may be carried out shall grant, or join in granting, such rights in relation to any land or waters as will enable the person on whom the works notice is served to comply with any requirements imposed by the works notice. 3 Before serving a works notice, the Agency shall reasonably endeavour to consult every person who appears to it— a to be the owner or occupier of any relevant land, and b to be a person who might be required by subsection (2) above to grant, or join in granting, any rights, concerning the rights which that person may be so required to grant. 4 A works notice shall not be regarded as invalid, or as invalidly served, by reason only of any failure to comply with the requirements of subsection (3) above. 5 A person who grants, or joins in granting, any rights pursuant to subsection (2) above shall be entitled, on making
- mineral permission
means any planning permission, other than a planning permission granted by a development order, for minerals development;
- mineral site
has the meaning given by sub-paragraph (2) below;
- minerals development
means development consisting of the winning and working of minerals, or involving the depositing of mineral waste.
- mining site
means— (a) in a case where it appears to the mineral planning authority to be expedient to treat as a single site the aggregate of the land to which any two or more mineral permissions relate, the aggregate of the land to which those permissions relate;
- Minister of the Crown
has the same meaning as in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975.
- mobile plant
means plant which is designed to move or to be moved whether on roads or otherwise;
- modifications
includes additions, alterations and omissions and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
- National Park
means an area designated as such under section 5(3) of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949;
- National Park authority
means a National Park authority established by virtue of section 7(1)(b) of the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 10).
- navigation authority
has the meaning given by section 221(1) of the 1991 Act;
- new Agency
means the Agency or SEPA;
- notice
means notice in writing;
- notification
means notification in writing;
- occupational pension scheme
has the meaning given by section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993.
- old mining permission
has the meaning given— (a)..., by section 22(1) of the 1991 Act,...
- original purposes
means the purposes specified in subsection (1) of section 5 of that Act, as originally enacted;
- person acting in a relevant capacity
means— a a person acting as an insolvency practitioner, within the meaning of section 388 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (including that section as it applies in relation to an insolvent partnership by virtue of any order made under section 421 of that Act);
- planning authority
means an authority within the meaning of section 172 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;
- pollution of controlled waters
means the entry into controlled waters of any poisonous, noxious or polluting matter or any solid waste matter;
- post-commencement limitation
means a prohibition, restriction or other limitation imposed by a statutory provision that— (a) is contained in an Act passed after the end of the Session in which the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 is passed, or (b) is contained in an instrument made under an Act and comes into force on or after the commencement of section 22 of that 2016 Act;
- powers and duties
includes powers or duties exercisable by virtue of a warrant under Schedule 18 to this Act.
- pre-commencement limitation
means a prohibition, restriction or other limitation imposed by a statutory provision that— (a) is contained in an Act passed no later than the end of the Session in which the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 is passed, or (b) is contained in an instrument made under an Act and comes into force before the commencement of section 22 of that 2016 Act;
- pre-commencement power
means power conferred by a statutory provision that— (a) is contained in an Act passed no later than the end of the Session in which the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 is passed, or (b) is contained in an instrument made under an Act and comes into force before the commencement of section 22 of that 2016 Act;
- premises
includes any land, vehicle, vessel or mobile plant. • “ waste collection authority ” shall be construed in accordance with section 30(3)(a), (b) and (bb) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
- prescribed
means specified in, or determined under, a scheme (in this section referred to as a “charging scheme”) made under this section by the body in question.
- private legislation in Parliament
includes—
- producer
means any person whose activities produce waste or any person who carries out pre-processing, mixing or other operations resulting in a change in the nature or composition of this waste.”
- Protected material
means—
- protected taxpayer information
has the meaning given by section 14 of the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Act 2014 (asp 16), • “relevant agency” means the Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or SEPA.
- public authority
means any local authority within the meaning of the 1972 Act (including any such authority in their capacity as a local planning authority), any National Park authority, any existing authority for a National Park, any joint authority established under Part II of the Local Government Act 1992, or any residuary body established under section 17 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007...;
- public body
includes— (a) any local authority, joint board or joint committee;
- public office
means— (a) an office under Her Majesty;
- Rate Support Grant Report
means a Rate Support Grant Report made under section 60 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;
- registered common
means any land registered as common land or as a town or village green under Part 1 of the Commons Act 2006.
- regulated facility
has the meaning given in regulation 8 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations;
- regulations
means regulations made by the Secretary of State;
- relevant agency
means the Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or SEPA.
- relevant authority
has the same meaning as in section 11A of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.
- relevant charging scheme
means a charging scheme under section 41 which relates to any extent to licences granted under Chapter II of Part II of the 1991 Act in respect of abstractions from, or impounding of, waters in the catchment areas of the rivers Dee, Wye and Severn.
- relevant county council
means a county council for an area in England for which there are district councils.
- relevant date
means—
- relevant environmental functions
means—
- relevant inspector
means— (i) the chief inspector for England and Wales constituted under section 16(3) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990;
- relevant land
means— (a) any land or waters in relation to which the works notice in question requires, or may require, works or operations to be carried out;
- relevant land or waters
means— a the contaminated land in question;
- relevant licence
means— (a) any environmental licence;
- relevant licensed period
means the period during which an environmental licence is in force or such part of that period as may be prescribed.
- relevant officer
means—
- relevant official
means— (a) a person authorised by SEPA or by a waste collection authority to exercise the powers conferred by this section, or (b) a constable, • “road” has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, • “vehicle” means— (a) a motor vehicle within the meaning of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, (b) a vehicle drawn by a motor vehicle, (c) mobile plant, • “waste collection authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.
- relevant planning permission
means any planning permission, other than an old mining permission or a planning permission granted by a development order, granted after 30th June 1948 for minerals development;
- relevant power
means a power conferred by section 108 of this Act, including a power exercisable by virtue of a warrant under this Schedule.
- relevant public authority
has the meaning given by section 81A(2);
- relevant regulations
means— (a) the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/925);
- relevant undertaker
means a water undertaker or sewerage undertaker;
- relevant Welsh public authority
means a person designated in accordance with subsection (3) as a relevant Welsh public authority.
- Remediation
means— a the doing of anything for the purpose of assessing the condition of— i the contaminated land in question;
- remediation declaration
has the meaning given by section 78H(6) below;
- remediation notice
has the meaning given by section 78E(1) below;
- remediation statement
has the meaning given by section 78H(7) below;
- restriction notice
has the meaning given by section 109A(3);
- restriction order
has the meaning given by section 109D(7);
- river purification authority
means a river purification authority within the meaning of the 1951 Act;
- river purification board
means a river purification board established by virtue of section 135 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;
- road
has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, • “vehicle” means— (a) a motor vehicle within the meaning of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, (b) a vehicle drawn by a motor vehicle, (c) mobile plant, • “waste collection authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.
- screen
means a grating or other device which, or any apparatus the operation of which, prevents— a the passage of salmon or migratory trout, and b if the screen is required in connection with a fish farm, the passage of any fish farmed at that fish farm, or any combination of devices or apparatus which, taken together, achieve that result;”
- SEPA
means the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.”
- serious harm
means— (a) serious pollution of the environment, (b) serious harm to the environment, (c) serious flooding, (d) serious harm to human health, or (e) a serious detrimental impact on drainage;
- specified
means specified in the relevant order.
- statutory functions
means functions conferred or imposed by or under any enactment.
- statutory order
means an order, byelaw, scheme or award made under an Act of Parliament, including an order or scheme confirmed by Parliament or brought into operation in accordance with special parliamentary procedure;
- statutory provision
means a provision of an Act or of an instrument made under an Act.
- strategy
includes the strategy as modified from time to time and “statement” shall be construed accordingly. 10 This section makes provision for the purpose of implementing Article 7 of the directive of the Council of the European Communities, dated 15th July 1975, on waste, as amended by— a the directive of that Council, dated 18th March 1991, amending directive 75/442/EEC on waste;
- subordinate legislation
has the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978.
- substance
means any natural or artificial substance, whether in solid or liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour;
- substituted purposes
means the purposes specified in that subsection as substituted by subsection (1) above.
- supervised access
means access under the supervision of a person approved by SEPA.
- supplementary report
means a supplementary report made under section 61 of that Act;
- supply of water in bulk
means a supply of water for distribution by a water undertaker taking the supply.
- the 1954 Act
means the Mines and Quarries Act 1954;
- the 1972 Act
means the Local Government Act 1972;
- the 1990 Act
means the Environmental Protection Act 1990;
- the 1991 Act
means the Water Resources Act 1991;
- the 1994 amendment
means the omission of the words “and Wales” in paragraph (a) of the said paragraph 2(6) by paragraph 22 of Schedule 6 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.
- the Agency
means the Environment Agency;
- the appellate authority
means the magistrates’ court, the sheriff or the Secretary of State, as the case may be. 2 On any appeal under subsection (1) above the appellate authority— a shall quash the notice, if it is satisfied that there is a material defect in the notice;
- the applicant
means the person who made the application in question under paragraph 9 above.
- the appropriate agency
means— (a) in relation to England, the Agency;
- the appropriate authority
means—
- the appropriate Minister
means—
- the appropriate Ministers
means— (a) as respects England, the Secretary of State and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;
- the appropriate national authority
means— (a) in relation to the Agency, the Secretary of State;
- the appropriate office of the Agency
means— a in a case where the person requiring the production of the licence or other authority specifies a particular office of the Agency for its production, that office;
- the appropriate procedure
means such procedure as may be specified or described in regulations made for the purpose by the Secretary of State;
- the Broads
has the same meaning as in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988;
- the catchment areas of the rivers Dee, Wye and Severn
has the meaning given by article 1(3) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999;
- the Consequential Provisions Act
means the Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991.
- the environment
means all, or any, of the following media, namely, the air, water and land (and the medium of air includes the air within buildings and the air within other natural or man-made structures above or below ground);
- the Environmental Permitting Regulations
means the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1154);
- the fixed penalty system
means the system implementing regulations made under or by virtue of paragraph (o) of subsection (2) of section 87 of this Act;
- the initial period
means the period of six months beginning with the day on which subsection (1) above comes into force;
- the Kyoto Protocol Registry
means the registry administered on behalf of the United Kingdom for the purposes of its obligations as a party to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- the Minister
means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;
- the Ministers
means the Secretary of State and the Minister;
- the official receiver
has the same meaning as it has in the Insolvency Act 1986 by virtue of section 399(1) of that Act;
- the planning Acts
has the same meaning as it has in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 by virtue of section 336(1) of that Act;
- the Registries Regulation 2013
means Commission Regulation (EU) No 389/2013 establishing a Union Registry pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Decisions No 290/2004/EC and No 406/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Regulations (EU) No 920/2010 and No 1193/2011, as amended from time to time;
- the related water resources provisions
has the same meaning as it has in the 1991 Act;
- the relevant day in 1969
means—
- the relevant land or waters
means— a the contaminated land in question;
- the relevant new Agency
means— (a) in the application of this Schedule in relation to transfers by or under section 3 of this Act, the Agency;
- the relevant persons
has the same meaning as in section 78C above. 78E 1 In any case where— a any land has been designated as a special site by virtue of section 78C(7) or 78D(6) above, or b a local authority has identified any contaminated land (other than a special site) in its area, the enforcing authority shall, in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed and subject to the following provisions of this Part, serve on each person who is an appropriate person a notice (in this Part referred to as a “remediation notice”) specifying what that person is to do by way of remediation and the periods within which he is required to do each of the things so specified. 2 Different remediation notices requiring the doing of different things by way of remediation may be served on different persons in consequence of the presence of different substances in, on or under any land or waters. 3 Where two or more persons are appropriate persons in relation to any particular thing which is to be done by way of remediation, the remediation notice served on each of them shall state the proportion, determined under section 78F(7) below, of the cost of doing that thing which each of them re
- the responsible person
means the owner of the water or canal undertaking or (as the case may be) the occupier of the mill or the owner or occupier of the fish farm. 2 Where this section applies, the responsible person shall, unless an exemption from the obligation is granted by the Agency, ensure (at his own cost) that there is placed and maintained at the entrance of, or within, the conduit or channel a screen which— a subject to subsection (4) below, prevents the descent of the salmon or migratory trout;
- the review date
means the date set by the authority as the review date for the purposes of the periodic review.
- the River Esk
means that River as defined by section 111(4) of the Scotland Act 1998 or as such definition as may be modified by an order under section 111(1) of that Act;
- the River Tweed
means “the river” within the meaning of the Tweed Fisheries Amendment Act 1859 as amended by byelaws. • “salmon”, “trout”, “eels”, “smelt”, “fish” and “freshwater fish” have the same meanings as in the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975.
- the specified period
means such period of thirty years or less from the date of service of the charging notice as is specified in the order. 14 Subsections (3) to (13) above do not extend to Scotland. 78Q 1 If, in a case where a local authority has served a remediation notice, the contaminated land in question becomes a special site, the appropriate Agency may adopt the remediation notice and, if it does so,— a it shall give notice of its decision to adopt the remediation notice to the appropriate person and to the local authority;