# The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2020, Introduction: Introductory text


This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in SI 2019/1440 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Climate Change
Made 8th January 2020
Laid before Parliament 9th January 2020
Coming into force 31st January 2020
The Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of making regulations under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the environment.
In accordance with section 2(4) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (“the 1999 Act”), the Secretary of State has consulted the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and such bodies or persons appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses, and such other bodies and persons, as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
Accordingly, the Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 7(9) of, and Schedule 1 to, the 1999 Act and by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/18/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-amendment-regulations-2020/introduction
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