Section 1 General purpose: protecting and improving the environment

Not yet in force

(1)

The purpose of this Part is to enable provision to be made for or in connection with protecting and improving the environment, including (but not limited to) the following—

(a)

regulating environmental activities;

(b)

implementing F1F2assimilated obligations relating to protecting and improving the environment;

(c)

implementing international obligations of the United Kingdom relating to protecting and improving the environment.

(2)

In subsection (1) “international obligations” has the same meaning as in the Northern Ireland Act 1998.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 1(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/584), regs. 1, 27; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Word in s. 1(1)(b) 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. 86(2)(a)