The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999

Revocations, savings and amendments

15.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the Land Drainage Improvement Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988(1) and the Land Drainage Improvement Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Amendment) Regulations 1995(2) are hereby revoked.

(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall affect the continued application of the Land Drainage Improvement Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988(3) (hereinafter called “the 1988 Regulations ”) to any proposed improvement works in respect of which, before the date of coming into force of these Regulations, a drainage body–

(a) under paragraph (2) of regulation 3 of the 1988 Regulations, have considered whether those works are likely to have significant effects on the environment; and

(b) under paragraph (3) or (4) of that regulation, have published a notice of their intention to prepare or not to prepare an environmental statement, as the case may be.

(3) In article 3(12)(b) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995(4) for the words “the Land Drainage Improvement Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988” there shall be substituted the words “the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999”.

(1)

S.I. 1988/1217.

(2)

S.I. 1995/2195.

(3)

S.I. 1988/1217 amended by S.I. 1995/2195.

(4)

S.I. 1995/418, to which there are amendments which are not relevant to these Regulations.