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Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 593

The Environment Act 1995 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1996 No. 593

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Environment Act 1995 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996

Made5th March 1996
Laid before Parliament8th March 1996
Coming into force1st April 1996

    The Secretary of State, being satisfied that it is expedient by reason of the coming into force of provisions of the Environment Act 1995[1] to make additional consequential amendments of the public general enactments and subordinate legislation specified in these Regulations, in exercise of his powers under section 120(1) and (5) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
    Citation and commencement
        1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Environment Act 1995 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.
    Amendment of references to the National Rivers Authority in other enactments
        2.    In each of the enactments specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations, any reference (however framed) to the National Rivers Authority, and any reference which falls to be construed as such a reference, shall be construed on and after 1st April 1996 as a reference to the Environment Agency.
    The Environment Act 1995: consequential amendments to other enactments
        3.    The legislation mentioned in Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall have effect with the amendments there specified (being amendments consequential on the coming into force of provisions of the Environment Act 1995).


Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Ferrers

Minister of State, Department of the Environment

5th March 1996





Notes:

[1] 1995 c. 25.

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