Regulation 1 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation

England and Wales

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2006 and come into force on 4th August 2006.

(2)

These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

(3)

In these Regulations, “the 1990 Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

(4)

In these Regulations, unless otherwise indicated—

(a)

any reference to a numbered section is to the section of the 1990 Act which bears that number or, in relation to harm so far as attributable to any radioactivity possessed by any substances, to that section as modified by the Radioactive Contaminated Land (Modification of Enactments)(England) Regulations 2006 M1; and

(b)

in relation to harm, so far as attributable to any radioactivity possessed by any substances, any term defined by the 1990 Act has the meaning given to it by that Act as modified by the Radioactive Contaminated Land (Modification of Enactments)(England) Regulations 2006.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 2006/1379.