S.L. 549.10 Art. 2Definitions.

(1) For the purpose of these regulations and unless the context otherwise requires: "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;

"discharge" means the introduction into the waters referred to in subregulation (2) of any substances in List I or List II of the Annex, with the exception of -

(a) discharges of dredgings,

(b) operational discharges from ships in territorial waters,

(c) dumping from ships in territorial waters;

"fresh-water limit" means the place in the watercourse where, at low tide and in a period of low fresh-water flow, there is an appreciable increase in salinity due to the presence of sea water; "inland surface water" means all static or flowing fresh surface water; "internal coastal water" means waters on the land-ward side of the base line from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending, in the case of watercourses, up to the fresh-water limit;

"pollution" means the discharge by man, directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the aquatic environment, the results of which are such as to cause hazards to human health, harm to living resources and to aquatic ecosystems, damage to amenities or interference with other legitimate uses of water.

(2) Subject to regulation 9, these regulations shall apply to:

(a) inland surface water;

(b) territorial waters;

(c) internal coastal waters; and

(d) ground water.