Introductory text

Environmental Protection

Made 19th December 2018

Coming into operation 17th January 2019

The Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, being a Department designated^f1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f2 in relation to measures relating to the environment, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act.

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Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1992/2870 and S.I. 2008/301
f2: 1972 c.68 section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1)(a), and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), the Schedule Part 1. Section 2(2) is prospectively repealed by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c.16), section 1 from exit day (see section 20 of that Act).