This Order specifies activities for the purposes of section 39 of the Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014. That section provides with respect to co-responsibility for offences committed in the course of carrying on a regulated activity. Regulated activities include: any activity described in regulation 3(1)(a) to (g) of the Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011; pollution activities as described in regulation 12 of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012, the use of sludge on agricultural land or the supply of sludge for such use and grazing animals, or harvesting crops, on agricultural land on which sludge or septic tank sludge has been used, the custody, control or storage of silage or any crop which is being made into silage or the custody or control of slurry.
Environmental Regulation (Liability where Activity Carried Out by Arrangement with Another) (Scotland) Order 2014 (S.S.I. No. 323 of 2014).