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(1)The Ministers shall from time to time, after consultation with the Nature Conservancy [F1Councils] and such persons appearing to them to represent other interests concerned as they consider appropriate—
(a)prepare codes containing such recommendations, advice and information as they consider proper for the guidance of—
(i)persons exercising functions under sections 28 to 32; and
(ii)persons affected or likely to be affected by the exercise of any of those functions; and
(b)revise any such code by revoking, varying, amending or adding to the provisions of the code in such manner as the Ministers think fit.
(2)A code prepared in pursuance of subsection (1) and any alterations proposed to be made on a revision of such a code shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith after being prepared; and the code or revised code, as the case may be, shall not be issued until the code or the proposed alterations have been approved by both Houses.
(3)Subject to subsection (2), the Ministers shall cause every code prepared or revised in pursuance of subsection (1) to be printed, and may cause copies of it to be put on sale to the public at such price as the Ministers may determine.
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F1Word in s. 33(1) substituted ( 1.4.1991.) by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), s. 132(1)(a), Sch. 9 para. 12; S.I. 1991/685, art.3.
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