Part III Nature conservation and wildlife protection

The Nature Conservancy Council for England

73 The Nature Conservancy Council for England: change of name.

1

The Nature Conservancy Council for England shall be known instead as English Nature.

2

For any reference to the Nature Conservancy Council for England—

a

in any provision of a local Act or subordinate legislation, or

b

in any other instrument or document,

there is substituted, as respects any time after the commencement of subsection (1), a reference to English Nature.

3

Any reference to English Nature in this Act (apart from this section), or in any instrument under this Act, shall be construed, in relation to any time before the commencement of subsection (1), as a reference to the Nature Conservancy Council for England.

4

Schedule 8 (which makes amendments consequential on subsection (1)) has effect.