Environment Act 1995
1995 c. 25
An Act to provide for the establishment of a body corporate to be known as the Environment Agency and a body corporate to be known as the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; to provide for the transfer of functions, property, rights and liabilities to those bodies and for the conferring of other functions on them; to make provision with respect to contaminated land and abandoned mines; to make further provision in relation to National Parks; to make further provision for the control of pollution, the conservation of natural resources and the conservation or enhancement of the environment; to make provision for imposing obligations on certain persons in respect of certain products or materials; to make provision in relation to fisheries; to make provision for certain enactments to bind the Crown; to make provision with respect to the application of certain enactments in relation to the Isles of Scilly; and for connected purposes.
Act (except specified provisions): transfer of certain functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1
Transfer of certain functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1 (as amended (E.W.) (17.3.2004 for specified purposes) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 100(5)(6), 105(3) (with s. 100(7)); S.I. 2004/641, arts. 2(b), 3(x) (with Sch. 3 para. 7))
Act modified (E.) (4.8.2006) by The Radioactive Contaminated Land (Modification of Enactments)(England) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1379), reg. 18
Act: power to amend conferred (E.W.) (1.10.2010) by Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29), ss. 28, 49(3) (with s. 49(1)(6)); S.I. 2010/2169, art. 4, Sch.
Act applied in part (Isles of Scilly) (with modifications) (E.W.) (27.3.2020) by The Isles of Scilly (Application of Water Legislation) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/214), art. 4
Act restricted (25.5.2020) by The West Midlands Rail Freight Interchange Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/511), Sch. 14 para. 6
For the extent of this Act see s. 125(7)-(10).