PART 1General

Interpretation: regulated facility and class of regulated facility8

1

In these Regulations, “regulated facility” means any of the following—

a

an installation,

b

mobile plant,

c

a waste operation,

d

a mining waste operation,

e

a radioactive substances activity,

f

a water discharge activity,

g

a groundwater activity.

2

But the following are not regulated facilities—

a

an exempt facility,

b

an excluded waste operation,

c

the disposal or recovery of household waste from a domestic property within the curtilage of that property by a person other than an establishment or undertaking.

3

In these Regulations, a reference to a class of regulated facility is a reference to a class in paragraph (1).

4

A regulated facility of any of the following classes may be carried on as part of the operation of a regulated facility of another class—

a

waste operation;

b

mining waste operation;

c

water discharge activity;

d

groundwater activity.