Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 629

The Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1997 No. 629

ELECTRICITY PIPE-LINES

The Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

	Made	4th March 1997
	Laid before Parliament	10th March 1997
	Coming into force	1st April 1997

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section hereby makes the following Regulations: - 

Citation and commencement
    1.These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

Amendments to 1990 Regulations
    2. - (1) The Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1990[3] shall be amended as follows.

    (2) In regulation 2(1), in paragraph (a) of the definition of "local planning authority", for the words "paragraph 2(6)(a) of Schedule 8 to the 1989 Act", there shall be substituted - 

    "sub-paragraph (a), (aa) or (ab) (as the case may be) of paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 to the 1989 Act(aa)".

    (3) Before footnote (a) to the definition of "principal council"(in regulation 2(1)), the following footnote to sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of "local planning authority" shall be inserted - 

" (aa) Paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 was amended by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c.19), section 20(4) and Schedule 6, paragraph 22, and by the Environment Act 1995 (c.25), section 78 and Schedule 10, paragraph 30. The former amendment came into force after the latter, and consequently sub-paragraph (3) of the said paragraph 30 applies, and not sub-paragraph (4) or (5) thereof.".

Fraser of Carmyllie
Minister for Energy,

Department of Trade and Industry
4th March 1997

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Electricity and Pipe-line Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1990. The amendments are consequential on the establishment of National Park authorities by virtue of the National Park Authorities (Wales) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2803) and the National Park Authorities (England) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1243). By virtue of these Orders, the former National Park Committees were replaced by the National Park authorities with effect from 1st April 1996 in Wales, and are similarly replaced, together with the Lake District Special Planning Board and the Peak Park Joint Planning Board, with effect from 1st April 1997 in England. These Regulations insert in the 1990 Regulations appropriate references to provisions inserted in the Electricity Act 1989 by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 and the Environment Act 1995.

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Notes:

[1] S.I. 1988/785.back

[2] 1972 c.68.back

[3] S.I. 1990/442, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.back

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