The Pollution of Water: Offences (Determination of Liability) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“operator” means a person operating a private waste water treatment works;

“private waste water treatment works” means a waste water treatment works operated by a person other than a sewerage undertaker under, or pursuant to, an agreement with a sewerage undertaker;

“the 1999 Order” means the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.

(2) In these Regulations—

(a) references to a sewer or works vested in a sewerage undertaker include references to a sewer or works controlled, operated or used by the undertaker for the purposes of its functions as such, and references to a sewer or works so vested shall be construed accordingly;

(b) references to works vested in a sewerage undertaker include references to a tanker operated by, or on behalf of, such an undertaker, whether or not for the purposes of its functions as such; and

(c) references to anything being or to be done, or to a person being bound or entitled, pursuant to an agreement with a sewerage undertaker include references to that thing being or to be done, or to that person being bound or entitled, in the capacity of a subcontractor of a party to that agreement.