{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998-relevant-authorities-and-relevant-persons-order-2006/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998-relevant-authorities-and-relevant-persons-order-2006/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2137",
  "legislation_title": "The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Relevant Authorities and Relevant Persons) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998-relevant-authorities-and-relevant-persons-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Relevant Authority and Relevant Persons: Environment Agency",
  "text": "(1) The Environment Agency is to be a relevant authority for the purposes of sections 1, 1B, 1CA and 1E of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 in the cases and circumstances prescribed by paragraph (2).\n(2) Those cases and circumstances are where a person has acted in an anti-social manner on, or in relation to, any land and the Environment Agency has a statutory function in relation to that land.\n(3) The relevant persons in relation to the Environment Agency are—\n(a) persons who are on, or likely to be on, the land referred to in paragraph (2); or\n(b) persons who are in the vicinity of, or likely to be in the vicinity of, that land.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amendments to section 1 were made by section 61 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c.30) and section 85 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 (c.38)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 1B was inserted by section 63 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c.30)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 1CA was inserted by section 140(1) and (4) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c.15)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 1E was inserted by section 66 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (c.30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2137/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:24:01.792060+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}