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England and Wales

Environmental Protection, England And Wales

Made 12th March 2012

Laid before Parliament 15th March 2012

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 15th March 2012

Coming into force 6th April 2012

The Secretary of State is designated^f1 for the purposes of the European Communities Act 1972^f2 in relation to the environment. The Welsh Ministers are designated^f3 for the purposes of that Act in relation to the prevention, reduction and management of waste.

The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and sections 45(3), 75(7)(d) and (8) and 96(2)(b) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990^f4, make the following Regulations.

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Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2008/301.
f2: 1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7).
f3: S.I. 2010/1552.
f4: 1990 c. 43. Functions of the Secretary of State under sections 45, 75 and 96, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 1999/672. Those functions were then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).