2008 No. 298
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGRICULTURE
WATER
The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Regulations 2008
Made 4th September 2008
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 8th September 2008
Coming into force 1st January 2009

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), and the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) (“the 2006 Act”), section 27(1). The functions conferred on the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2) were, so far as within devolved competence, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the 2006 Act.