In these Regulations—

• “the 1991 Act” means the Water Resources Act 1991;

• F1“the 2017 Regulations” means the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017;

• “conservation site” means—

  1. a

     F5a European site within the meaning of regulation 8(1)(e) of the 2017 Regulations;

  2. b

     a special area of conservation within the meaning of F2F6regulation 12 of the 2017 Regulations;

  3. c

     a special protection area or proposed special protection area within the meaning of F3regulations 15 and 16, respectively, of the 2017 Regulations;

  4. d

     a site of special scientific interest confirmed by the Natural Resources Body for Wales or Natural England pursuant to section 28(5)(b) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 M1;

  5. e

     in so far as not falling under sub-paragraph (d), a wetland designated under the Ramsar Convention, within the meaning of section 37A of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 M2;

  6. f

     an area designated by order by the Natural Resources Body for Wales or Natural England under section 7 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 M3;

  7. g

     a nature reserve established by a local authority under section 21 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 M4;

• “managed wetland system” means—

  1. a

     an area of land that is periodically inundated or saturated by abstracted water in order to provide ecological benefits to flora and fauna, or

  2. b

     an area of land through which abstracted water flows, through a system of channels, sluices, carriers or other apparatus in order to provide ecological benefits to flora and fauna;

• “normal tidal limit” means the normal tidal limit as marked on the Ordnance Maps (1:25,000 scale);

• “protected species” means—

  1. a

     a European protected species within the meaning of F4regulation 42(1) of, and Schedule 2 to, the 2017 Regulations;

  2. b

     a species designated under section 9 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 M5;

  3. c

     a species included in a list published by the Secretary of State under section 41 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 M6 or by the Welsh Ministers under section 7 of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 M7.

In these Regulations, references to alteration, in relation to impounding works, include the removal or partial removal of those works and cognate expressions are construed accordingly.