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The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2016

S.S.I. 2016/406 · Made 1 December 2016

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Environmental Protection

Made 1st December 2016

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 6th December 2016

Coming into force 1st February 2017

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 153(4) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1990 c.43. The functions of the Secretary of State, in or as regards Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and extent
  2. 2Variation of section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and extent

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2016 and comes into force on 1st February 2017.

(2)

This Order extends to Scotland only.

2Variation of section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990

In section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990f1 (financial assistance for environmental purposes), after paragraph (z1)f2 add—

“(z2)

any programme of measures to achieve, in relation to a body of water, environmental objectives of the kind that may be set in relation to that body of water under Part 1 of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003f3 or (as the case may be) schedule 1 of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004f4.”.

Signature

R CUNNINGHAM

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

1st December 2016

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to add any programme of measures to achieve, in relation to a body of water, environmental objectives of the kind that may be set under Part 1 of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 or schedule 1 of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004. This will enable the Scottish Ministers to give financial assistance for the purposes of any such programme of measures.