The Water Environment (Drinking Water Protected Areas) (Scotland) Order 2007

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 529

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

WATER

The Water Environment (Drinking Water Protected Areas) (Scotland) Order 2007

Made

28th November 2007

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

29th November 2007

Coming into force

31st December 2007

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6(1) and (2) of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003(1), and of all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Water Environment (Drinking Water Protected Areas) (Scotland) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 31st December 2007.

(2) In this order any reference to a section is a reference to that section in the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003.

Drinking Water Protected Areas

2.—(1) The bodies of surface water identified in maps 1 to 11 and the bodies of groundwater identified in maps 12 to 22(2) are for the purposes of section 6(1), those bodies of water in the Scotland River Basin District(3) which are–

(a) used for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption and either–

(i) provide more than 10 cubic metres of such water per day, or

(ii) serve more than 50 persons; or

(b) are intended to be used as mentioned in paragraph (a).

(2) The maps referred to in paragraph (1) are the maps prepared for the purposes of this Order and laid before the Scottish Parliament in accordance with section 6(2).

Revocation

3.  The Water Environment (Drinking Water Protected Areas) (Scotland) Order 2005(4) is hereby revoked.

MICHAEL RUSSELL

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

28th November 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order identifies those bodies of water used for the abstraction of drinking water, as required by section 6(1) of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Act”); in doing so it implements the Scottish Ministers' obligation to identify such bodies of water as set out in paragraph 1 of Article 7 of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (O.J. No. L 327, 22.12.2000, p.1).

This is done by reference to maps prepared for the purposes of the Order and laid before the Scottish Parliament in accordance with section 6(2) of the Act.

The maps identify the bodies of surface water and groundwater in the Scotland River Basin District which are used for the abstraction of drinking water and either provide more than 10 cubic metres per day, or serve more than 50 persons, or are intended for such use.

This Order revokes the Water Environment (Drinking Water Protected Areas) (Scotland) Order 2005.

The Order and maps will be published by the Scottish Ministers and will be available on their website at .

(1)

2003 asp 3.

(2)

These maps were laid before the Scottish Parliament on 28th November 2007 under reference SE/2007/254.

(3)

The Scotland River Basin District was designated by virtue of article 2(1) of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (Designation of Scotland River Basin District) Order 2003, S.S.I. 2003/610.

(4)

S.S.I. 2005/88.