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Statutory Instruments
Environmental Protection, England And Wales
Made
12th March 2012
Laid before Parliament
15th March 2012
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
15th March 2012
Coming into force
6th April 2012
The Secretary of State is designated(1) for the purposes of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the environment. The Welsh Ministers are designated(3) for the purposes of that Act in relation to the prevention, reduction and management of waste.
The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and sections 45(3), 75(7)(d) and (8) and 96(2)(b) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(4), make the following Regulations.
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).
1990 c. 43. Functions of the Secretary of State under sections 45, 75 and 96, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1999/672. Those functions were then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).
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