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Statutory Instruments
Town And Country Planning, England
Made
30th July 2008
Laid before Parliament
7th August 2008
Coming into force
1st September 2008
The Secretary of State, being a designated(1) Minister for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and by section 333 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to, the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(3), makes the following Regulations:
The Secretary of State is so designated by S.I. 2008/301.
1972 c.68. Section 2(2) includes power to make certain provision in relation to the European Economic Area by virtue of section 2(5) of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (1993 c.51). Council Directive 85/337/EEC was amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC and further amended by Council Directive 2003/35/EC.
1990 c.8; paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 was amended by the Environment Act 1995 (c.25), Schedule 22, paragraph 44. These powers are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672: see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as substituted by Schedule 3 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/253). By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32) they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.
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