Regulation 40 Regulatory review

United Kingdom

(1)

The Secretary of State must from time to time (and in so far as the Secretary of State has not done so under regulation 39) carry out a review of these Regulations.

(2)

Having carried out a review under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State must—

(a)

set out the conclusions in a report, and

(b)

publish the report.

(3)

In carrying out the review, the Secretary of State must have regard to how Council Directive 91/676/EEC is implemented in other member States.

(4)

A report under paragraph (2)(a) must in particular—

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by these Regulations, and

(b)

include an assessment of the extent to which those objectives are being achieved, and

(c)

include an assessment of whether those objectives remain appropriate and, in so far as they do, the extent to which they could be achieved in a less burdensome way.

(5)

The first report under this regulation must be published before F131st March 2020.

(6)

Subsequent reports under this regulation are to be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 40(5) substituted (31.12.2016) by The Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1190), regs. 1(1), 9(5)