Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 1513
Energy
Environmental Protection
The Energy Act 2008 (Consequential Modifications) (Offshore Environmental Protection) Order 2010
Made
1st June 2010
Laid before Parliament
4th June 2010
Coming into force
1st July 2010
The Secretary of State is designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the environment.
Accordingly the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act and by sections 104(2) and 107(2) of the Energy Act 2008(3), makes the following Order:
1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). Section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) provides that despite the transfer to the Scottish Ministers of functions in relation to observing and implementing obligations under EU law, any function of a Minister of the Crown shall continue to be exercisable by that Minister as regards Scotland for the purposes specified in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.