Introductory text

England, Wales and Scotland

Clean Air, England

Made 15th December 2014

Laid before Parliament 17th December 2014

Coming into force 7th January 2015

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(3) (as applied by section 44), 7(1), 14(7), 36(6), 37(3), 38(1), (3)(a) to (d), (4) and 63(1) of the Clean Air Act 1993^f1.

In accordance with sections 37(4) and 38(2) of that Act, the Secretary of State has consulted such persons as appear to her—

(a)

to represent local authorities,

(b)

to represent industrial interests, and

(c)

to be conversant with problems of air pollution,

as she considers appropriate.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1993 c. 11. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 1(3), 7(1), 14(7), 37(3), 38(1), (3)(a) to (d), (4) and 63(1) are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, vested in the Welsh Ministers. Those functions were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales constituted by the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2; see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Clean Air Act 1993. By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers immediately after the end of the initial period as defined by section 161(5) of that Act.