PART 1Environmental governance
CHAPTER 2The Office for Environmental Protection
The Office for Environmental Protection
I127Co-operation duties of public authorities and the OEP
1
A person whose functions include functions of a public nature must co-operate with the OEP, and give it such reasonable assistance as it requests (including the provision of information), in connection with the exercise of its functions under this Act.
2
Subsection (1) does not apply to—
a
a court or tribunal,
b
either House of Parliament,
c
a devolved legislature,
d
the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers, a Northern Ireland department or a Minister within the meaning of the Northern Ireland Act 1998,
e
a person exercising a parliamentary function, or
f
a person whose only public functions are devolved functions.
3
A person whose public functions include devolved functions is only required to co-operate with the OEP by virtue of subsection (1) to the extent that co-operation is in relation to functions that are not devolved functions.
4
If the OEP considers that a particular exercise of its functions may be relevant to the exercise of a devolved environmental governance function by a devolved environmental governance body, the OEP must consult that body.