The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (No. 2) Order 1995

Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 554

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (No. 2) Order 1995

Made

3rd March 1995

Laid before Parliament

7th March 1995

Coming into force

28th March 1995

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 (No. 2) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 28th March 1995.

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

2.  In section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (purposes for which financial assistance may be given) there shall be inserted after paragraph (x)(2):

(y)the Energy Saving Trust Limited.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Robert Jones

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

3rd March 1995

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 Energy Saving Trust Limited, a company limited by guarantee whose main objects are to promote and provide for the efficient and rational use of energy in the United Kingdom.

(2)

Section 153(1) was amended by S.I. 1991/146, 682, 1991/1179, 1992/654, 1993/1062, 1518 and 1995/150.