2017 No. 585

Land Drainage, England And Wales

The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Made

Laid before Parliament

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

Coming into force

For the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19721 (“the ECA 1972”)—

a

the Secretary of State has been designated2 in relation to the environment; and

b

the Welsh Ministers have been designated3 in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in so far as they concern improvement works within the meaning in regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 19994.

The Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the ECA 1972—

  1. a

    the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales, to the extent that they are designated to do so; and

  2. b

    the Secretary of State, in every other respect.