Version Superseded: 01/04/2013
Point in time view as at 01/10/2006.
Environmental Protection Act 1990, Paragraph 4 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 05 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
4(1)The Countryside Act 1968 shall be amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In section 15 (areas of special scientific interest)—
(a)in subsection (2), the words “in the national interest” shall be omitted and, after the words “any such land” there shall be inserted the words “ (or of any adjacent land) ”; and
(b)F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)In section 37 (protection for interests in countryside) for the words “Nature Conservancy Council” there shall be substituted the words “ , the Council, the Nature Conservancy Council for England and the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland ”.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 9 para. 4(2)(b) repealed (1.10.2006) by Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16), ss. 105(2), 107, Sch. 12; S.I. 2006/2541, art. 2
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