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.