I128Interpretation of Part 1

• “body of groundwater” means a distinct volume of groundwater within one or more aquifers; and “aquifer” means a subsurface layer or layers of rock or other geological strata of sufficient porosity and permeability to allow either a significant flow of groundwater or the abstraction of significant quantities of groundwater,

• “body of inland surface water” means a body of surface water which is also inland water,

• “body of surface water” means a discrete and significant element of surface water such as a loch, a stream, river, canal or other watercourse, part of a loch, stream, river, canal or other watercourse, a body of transitional water or a stretch of coastal water,

• “body of water” means a body of groundwater or a body of surface water,

• “coastal water” has the meaning given in section 3,

• “controlled activity” is to be construed in accordance with section 20,

• “the Directive” has the meaning given in section 1,

• “groundwater” has the meaning given in section 3,

• F2“the Groundwater Directive” means Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration F3, as amended by Commission Directive 2014/80/EUF4,

• “inland water” has the meaning given in section 3,

• “loch” means a body of standing inland surface water,

• F7“the Priority Substances Directive” means Directive 2008/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on environmental quality standards in the field of water policy, amending and subsequently repealing Council Directives 82/176/EEC, 83/513/EEC, 84/156/EEC, 84/491/EEC, 86/280/EEC and amending Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council F5, as amended by Directive 2013/39/EU of the European Parliament and of the CouncilF6,

• “protection of the water environment” has the meaning given in section 1,

• “responsible authority” is to be construed in accordance with section 2,

• “river basin” means an area of land from which all surface run-off water flows through a connected sequence of streams, rivers or other watercourses or lochs into the sea at a single river mouth, estuary or delta and includes any body of transitional water in the vicinity of that river mouth, estuary or delta,

• “river basin district” means an area designated as such by an order under section 4(1),

• “river basin management plan” means such a plan approved by the Scottish Ministers under section 13 (including that section as applied by section 14(4)),

• “SEPA” means the Scottish Environment Protection Agency,

• F1 “ shellfish ” includes crustaceans and molluscs of any kind, and includes any brood, ware, half-ware, spat or spawn of shellfish,

• “ shellfish water protected area ” means an area of coastal water or transitional water designated by order under section 5A(1),

• “sub-basin plan” has the meaning given in section 15,

• “surface water” has the meaning given in section 3,

• “the territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Scotland” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46),

• “transitional water” has the meaning given in section 3,

• “watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices and passages through which water flows and includes artificial watercourses and underground watercourses,

• “the water environment” has the meaning given in section 3.