Water (Scotland) Act 1980

Part I S Interpretation

Definitions, etc. S

1 (1) In this Schedule the following expressions shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:

• “authorised” means authorised by the special Act;

• “consumer” means a person supplied, or about to be supplied, with water by the undertakers;

• “factory” means factory within the meaning of the M1 Factories Act 1961;

• [F1 “prescribed” means prescribed by the special Act;

• “special Act” means the Act or Part of an Act, or order with which any provisions of this Schedule are incorporated, with or without modification, and includes those provisions as so incorporated;

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• “trunk main” means a main constructed for the purpose of conveying water from a source of supply to a filter or reservoir, or from one filter or reservoir to another filter or reservoir, or for the purpose of conveying water in bulk from one part of the limits of supply to another part of those limits, or for the purpose of giving or taking a supply of water in bulk;

• undertakers” means the persons whose water undertaking is authorised or regulated by the special Act.

(2) Other expressions in this Schedule have the respective meanings assigned to them in this Act.

(3) References in this Schedule to any enactment shall be construed as including references to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment including this Act.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(1) repealed (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), s. 129(2), sch. 8 Pt. 2; S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)

F2 Definition repealed by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), ss. 2, 109, Sch. 7 Pt. I

Marginal Citations

M1 1961 c. 34.