24.—(1) The Water Environment (River Basin Management Planning: Further Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1),
(a)after the definition of “artificial or heavily modified body of surface water”, insert—
““assimilated law” has the meaning given by section 6(7) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018”,
(b)omit the definition of “retained EU law”.
(3) In regulation 3(1)(c), in both places it occurs, for “retained EU” substitute “assimilated”.
(4) In regulation 10(b), for “retained EU” substitute “assimilated”.
(5) In regulation 13(1)(a), for “retained EU” substitute “assimilated”.
(6) In regulation 13(1)(j)(iv), for “retained EU” substitute “assimilated”.
(7) In regulation 14(1)(f)(ii), for “retained EU” substitute “assimilated”.
(8) In regulation 24(3), for “retained EU” substitute “assimilated”.
S.S.I. 2013/323, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2019/26.