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The Environment Agency (Transfer Date) Order 1996

S.I. 1996/234 · Made 6 February 1996

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Made 6th February 1996

The Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in exercise of powers conferred on them by section 56(1) and (3) of the Environment Act 1995f1, hereby make the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1995 c. 25; see the definition of “the transfer date” in section 56(1).

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Transfer Date
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Environment Agency (Transfer Date) Order 1996.

2Transfer Date

For the purposes of Part I of the Environment Act 1995 as it applies for or in connection with transfers under or by virtue of Chapter I of that Part, the transfer date shall be 1st April 1996.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

James Clappison

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

31st January 1996

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Gwilym Jones

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

6th February 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Chapter I of Part I of the Environment Act 1995 provides for the establishment of the Environment Agency for England and Wales. That Chapter further provides for the transfer to the Agency on the transfer date of the functions, property, rights and liabilities of the National Rivers Authority, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Pollution and the waste regulation authorities, and certain functions, property, rights and liabilities of the Secretary of State. This Order sets 1st April 1996 as the transfer date.