S.L. 549.9 чл. 2Interpretation.

(1) For the purpose of these regulations -"agriculture" means the growing of all types of commercial food crops, including those for stock-rearing purposes, and cognate words shall be construed accordingly;

"agricultural land" means an area of land used for agriculture; "competent authority" means the Department for Environment Protection under the guidance of the Director for Environment Protection and such other body or person as the Minister responsible for the environment may by order in the Gazette prescribe and different bodies or persons may be designated as a competent authority for different provisions and different purposes of these regulations;

"Director of Agriculture" means the director responsible for the Department of Agriculture and includes any officer in the Department of Agriculture who acts on his behalf; "industrial sludge" means sludge from the treatment of industrial waste water of the sectors listed in Annex II; "sludge" means:

(i) residual sludge from sewage plants treating domestic or urban waste waters and from other sewage plants treating waste waters of a composition similar to domestic and urban waste waters;

(ii) residual sludge from septic tanks and other similar installations for the treatment of sewage;

(iii) residual sludge from sewage plants other than those referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii); "septic tank sludge" means sludge from septic tanks which contains human excreta and domestic waste water from single or multiple human dwellings;

"sludge producer" means any person who manages a plant at which sludge is produced for disposal;

"the sludge table" means the table set out in Schedule 1; "the soil table" means the table set out in Schedule 2; "treated sludge" means sludge which has undergone biological, chemical or heat treatment or any other treatment processes envisaged in Annex I or a combination of these processes, so as to significantly reduce its fermentability and the health hazards when it is used; "use" means spreading of sludge on the soil or any other application of sludge on and in the soil; "urban waste water" means domestic waste water or the mixture of domestic waste water with industrial waste water and, or run-off rain water; "domestic waste water" means waste water from residential settlements and services which originates predominantly from the human metabolism and from household activities.

(2) In these regulations, references to a numbered regulation, Annex or Schedule are references to the regulation, Annex or Schedule bearing that number in these regulations.