Prospective
General purpose: protecting and improving the environmentN.I.
1—(1) The purpose of this Part is to enable provision to be made for or in connection with protecting and improving the environment, including (but not limited to) the following—
(a)regulating environmental activities;
(b)implementing [F1[F2assimilated] obligations] relating to protecting and improving the environment;
(c)implementing international obligations of the United Kingdom relating to protecting and improving the environment.
(2) In subsection (1) “international obligations” has the same meaning as in the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 1(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/584), regs. 1, 27; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Word in s. 1(1)(b) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1424), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 86(2)(a)