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;

h

a small waste incineration plant;

i

a solvent emission activity;

j

a flood risk activity.

F1k

a medium combustion plant;

l

a specified generator

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;

d

an excluded flood risk activity.

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

a waste operation;

b

a mining waste operation;

c

a water discharge activity;

d

a groundwater activity;

e

a small waste incineration plant;

f

a solvent emission activity;

g

a flood risk activity.

F2h

a medium combustion plant;

i

a specified generator