Part 2Water and sewerage services

Sustainable urban drainage systems

33Sustainable urban drainage systems

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In section 59(1) (interpretation) of the 1968 Act, insert the following definitions in the appropriate places alphabetically—

  • private SUD system” means any SUD system which is not a public SUD system;

  • public SUD system” means any SUD system which is vested in Scottish Water;

  • road water” means the run-off of rainwater from any road for the time being entered in a list of public roads kept by a local roads authority under section 1(1) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;

  • SUD system” means a sustainable urban drainage system;

  • sustainable urban drainage system” means a drainage system which—

    1. a

      facilitates attenuation, settlement or treatment of surface water from 2 or more premises (whether or not together with road water), and

    2. b

      includes one or more of the following: inlet structures, outlet structures, swales, constructed wetlands, ponds, filter trenches, attenuation tanks and detention basins (together with any associated pipes and equipment);

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Schedule 3 makes modifications of the 1968 Act and the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 3) in relation to sustainable urban drainage systems.