Paragraph 3

Enabling the Department or the Secretary of State to give directions which enforcing authorities are to comply with, or guidance which enforcing authorities are to have regard to, in exercising functions under the regulations, including—

(a)

directions providing for any functions exercisable by one enforcing authority to be instead exercisable by another, or by the Department or Secretary of State;

F1(b)

directions given for the purposes of the implementation of—

(i)

any F2assimilated obligations;

(ii)

any obligations of the United Kingdom under any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party;

(c)

directions relating to the exercise of any function in a particular case or class of case.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 1 para. 3(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/584), regs. 1, 25(a) (with reg. 46(1)(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Word in Sch. 1 para. 3(b)(i) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1424), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 49(2)(f)