The Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Wales) Regulations 2010

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2010 No. 2880 (W.238)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, WALES

The Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Wales) Regulations 2010

Made

30 November 2010

Coming into force

1 October 2011

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 77(2) and 90(3)(a) and (b) of, and paragraphs 1, 2, 3(1)(a) and (2)(a), 4 to 8, 9(1) and (2), 10, 12, 16 to 19 and 21 of Schedule 6 to, the Climate Change Act 2008(1).

The Welsh Ministers are satisfied in accordance with paragraph 23 of Schedule 6 to that Act that every county council and county borough council in Wales will act in accordance with the principles referred to in that paragraph when exercising a power conferred by these Regulations to impose a civil sanction.

A draft of these Regulations has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the National Assembly for Wales pursuant to section 77(4)(a) and (b) of, and paragraph 27(3)(2) of Schedule 6 to, the Climate Change Act 2008.

(1)

2008 c. 27; see section 77(3) of the Climate Change Act 2008 for the definition of “the relevant national authority”; and paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 6 to that Act for the definition of “specified”.

(2)

See section 97 of that Act for the definition of “devolved legislature”.