Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2015 and comes into force on 1st October 2015.

Appointed day

2.  1st October 2015 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011-

(a)section 18 (provisional risk designation);

(b)section 19 (first risk designation);

(c)section 20 (periodic review of risk designations);

(d)section 21 (decision following a periodic review);

(e)section 22(1), (2) and (3) (risk designation and periodic review: matters to be taken into account);

(f)section 23(1) to (7) (review of SEPA's decisions giving risk designations);

(g)section 24(1) to (6) (appeal to the Scottish Ministers following SEPA's review);

(h)section 26(1) (high-risk reservoirs, medium risk reservoirs and low-risk reservoirs: further provision); and

(i)section 91(2)(b) (powers of entry in relation to risk designation).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st October 2015 the provisions of the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011 ("the Act") specified in article 2. In particular, it brings into force provisions which require the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to give each controlled reservoir registered under the Act a risk designation.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order)

Sections 1, 2, 3, 7 and 114 to 116 of the Act came into force on 13th April 2011 in accordance with section 2 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10). The following provisions were brought into force by earlier commencement orders as follows:-