S.L. 549.164 Art. 2Interpretation.

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Environment Protection Act;

"the Authority" means the Environment and Resources Authority established by article 6 of the Act;

"coastal aquifer" means an unconfined groundwater body sustained in the upper coralline limestone by an underlying layer of clay and bounded by the freshwater-saltwater interface at the coast;

"effective control of use" shall mean the user’s exercise of control over the groundwater source in question;

"groundwater" means all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil; "groundwater source" or "source" means any shaft, adit, opening, hole, spring outlet or well artificially dug in the ground or artificially enlarged, which has access to groundwater or from which groundwater is abstracted or can be abstracted or is vertically deeper than half the distance between the well head and the nearest water table at that point, but it does not include a water retaining cistern;

"mean sea level aquifer" means an unconfined groundwater body located at sea-level and bounded laterally by the coast and vertically by the freshwater-saltwater interface; "notification fee" means the fee paid in respect of the application for a notification of a groundwater source in accordance with these regulations; "officer" means and includes any person engaged by, detailed for duty with, or in any manner whatsoever performing duties for or on behalf of the Authority; "perched aquifer" means an unconfined groundwater body sustained in the upper coralline limestone by an underlying layer of clay; "registration fee" means the fee paid in respect of the registration of a groundwater source in accordance with the Registration of Groundwater Sources Regulations, 1997* ; "user" means the person who, solely or jointly with others, exercises effective control and use over the groundwater source in question.

(2) The definitions in the Act shall also be applicable to these regulations, unless the context requires otherwise.