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Introductory text

United Kingdom

Energy

Environmental Protection

Made 1st June 2010

Laid before Parliament 4th June 2010

Coming into force 1st July 2010

The Secretary of State is designatedf1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f2 in relation to the environment.

Accordingly the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act and by sections 104(2) and 107(2) of the Energy Act 2008f3, makes the following Order:

Annotations

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). Section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) provides that despite the transfer to the Scottish Ministers of functions in relation to observing and implementing obligations under EU law, any function of a Minister of the Crown shall continue to be exercisable by that Minister as regards Scotland for the purposes specified in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

f3

2008 c. 32.