http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1990/43/schedule/5

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/schedule/5/part/II

Environmental Protection Act 1990

An Act to make provision for the improved control of pollution arising from certain industrial and other processes; to re-enact the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 relating to waste on land with modifications as respects the functions of the regulatory and other authorities concerned in the collection and disposal of waste and to make further provision in relation to such waste; to restate the law defining statutory nuisances and improve the summary procedures for dealing with them, to provide for the termination of the existing controls over offensive trades or businesses and to provide for the extension of the Clean Air Acts to prescribed gases; to amend the law relating to litter and make further provision imposing or conferring powers to impose duties to keep public places clear of litter and clean; to make provision conferring powers in relation to trolleys abandoned on land in the open air; to amend the Radioactive Substances Act 1960; to make provision for the control of genetically modified organisms; to make provision for the abolition of the Nature Conservancy Council and for the creation of councils to replace it and discharge the functions of that Council and, as respects Wales, of the Countryside Commission; to make further provision for the control of the importation, exportation, use, supply or storage of prescribed substances and articles and the importation or exportation of prescribed descriptions of waste; to confer powers to obtain information about potentially hazardous substances; to amend the law relating to the control of hazardous substances on, over or under land; to amend section 107(6) of the Water Act 1989 and sections 31(7)(a), 31A(2)(c)(i) and 32(7)(a) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974; to amend the provisions of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 as regards the dumping of waste at sea; to make further provision as respects the prevention of oil pollution from ships; to make provision for and in connection with the identification and control of dogs; to confer powers to control the burning of crop residues; to make provision in relation to financial or other assistance for purposes connected with the environment; to make provision as respects superannuation of employees of the Groundwork Foundation and for remunerating the chairman of the Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council; and for purposes connected with those purposes.

1990-11-01

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Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 33ZB(10A)

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s. 69(3)(b)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

(4)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 34ZB(8A)

Environment Act 2021

s. 69(5)(b)

s. 144

s. 147(3)

(4)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 161(2AA)

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Environment (Wales) Act 2016

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s. 69(4)

s. 88(3)(b)

Environmental Protection Act 1990

s. 106A

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s. 41(2)

s. 46

s. 48(4)

SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 5 . . .

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

Sch. 5 repealed (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 12, ss. 50, 51(2), Sch. 6 Pt.I (with ss. 42, 46)

Part II Amendments relating to Scotland and Northern Ireland

Scotland

18

In section 20 of the 1960 Act (application of Act to Scotland)—

a

for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

a
for any reference to the chief inspector there shall be substituted a reference to the chief inspector for Scotland, being the inspector so appointed by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Act in relation to Scotland;
b
any reference to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall be omitted and anything required to be done in England by both the chief inspector and that Minister shall be done in Scotland by the chief inspector for Scotland.

b

after paragraph (e) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

f
in section 11, subsections (1) and (4) shall be omitted.

19

1

In Schedule 1 to the 1960 Act (enactments, other than local enactments, to which section 9(1) applies)—

a

paragraphs 9 and 11 shall be omitted;

b

after paragraph 17 there shall be added the following paragraphs—

17A
Section 201 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
17B
Section 124 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982.

Northern Ireland

20

In section 21 of the 1960 Act (application of Act to Northern Ireland)—

a

in subsection (2)—

i

for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

a
except in section sixteen of this Act any reference to the Secretary of State shall be construed as a reference to the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland, any reference to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall be construed as a reference to the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland and any reference to the Treasury shall be construed as a reference to the Department of Finance and Personnel for Northern Ireland;

ii

at the end there shall be added the following paragraphs—

k
in section 11A(3) of this Act the reference to section 16 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 shall be construed as a reference to section 10 of the Alkali & Works Regulation Act 1906;
l
section 12(7B) of this Act shall be omitted;
m
for section 12B(3) of this Act there shall be substituted—
3
Schedule 8 to the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (provisions as to inquiries) shall apply to inquiries in pursuance of subsection (2) above.”;
n
in section 15A of this Act the reference to each House of Parliament shall be construed as a reference to the Northern Ireland Assembly;
o
any reference to the Crown shall be construed as including a reference to the Crown in right of Her Majesty’s Government in Northern Ireland

b

subsection (4) shall be omitted.