The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 682

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes Order 1991

Made

13th March 1991

Laid before Parliament

25th March 1991

Coming into force

15th April 1991

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 153(4) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and Commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes Order 1991 and shall come into force on 15th April 1991.

Variation of section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990

2.  The following paragraph is hereby added to section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990:

(n)the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce so far as its activities relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment..

Michael Heseltine

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

13th March 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to enable the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, to give financial assistance to, or for the purposes of, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce so far as its activities relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment.