Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000

1 U.K. In each provision specified in relation to each of the Acts set out below, for “the Nature Conservancy Council for England” or, as the case may be, “Nature Conservancy Council for England” there is substituted “ English Nature ”

(a) the National Parks and Access to the M1 Countryside Act 1949: section 15A (meaning of “Nature Conservancy Council”);

(b) the M2 Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 1966: in section 5A (byelaws under section 5 for marine environmental purposes), subsection (3)(a);

(c) the M3 Countryside Act 1968—

(i) in section 15 (areas of special scientific interest), subsection (6A), and

(ii) section 37 (protection for interests in countryside);

(d) the M4 Conservation of Seals Act 1970: in section 10 (power to grant licences to kill or take seals), subsection (5);

(e) the M5 Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980: in section 1 (power to limit the import etc. of fish and fish eggs), subsection (2);

(f) the M6 Highways Act 1980: in section 105B (procedure relating to environmental impact assessments), in subsection (8), paragraph (b) of the definition of “the consultation bodies”;

(g) the M7 Animal Health Act 1981: in section 21 (destruction of wild life on infection other than rabies), subsection (9);

(h) the M8 Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981—

(i) in section 27 (interpretation of Part I), subsection (3A),

(ii) in section 27A (construction of references to Nature Conservancy Council), paragraph (a), and

(iii) in section 52 (interpretation of Part II), subsection (1);

(i) the M9 Inheritance Tax Act 1984: Schedule 3 (bodies receiving gifts for national purposes etc.);

(j) the M10 Agriculture Act 1986: in section 18 (designation and management of environmentally sensitive areas), subsection (2)(a);

(k) the M11 Channel Tunnel Act 1987—

(i) in Schedule 2, Part II (regulation of scheduled works), paragraph 5(3), and

(ii) in Schedule 3 (planning permission), paragraph 17(4)(a);

(l) the M12 Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988—

(i) in section 1 (the Broads Authority), subsection (3)(b),

(ii) in section 4 (conservation of areas of natural beauty), subsections (3)(a) and (5)(a),

(iii) in section 5 (notification of certain operations within the Broads), subsection (4), and

(iv) in Schedule 3 (functions of Broads Authority), paragraph 33(1)(c);

(m) the M13 Electricity Act 1989: in Schedule 9 (preservation of amenities and fisheries), paragraph 2(2)(a);

(n) the M14 Environmental Protection Act 1990—

(i) in section 36 (grant of waste management licences), subsection (7), and

(ii) in section 128 (creation and constitution of the Nature Conservancy Council for England and the Countryside Council for Wales), subsections (1) and (2)(a);

(o) the M15 Deer Act 1991: in section 8 (licences for exemptions from sections 2 to 4 of the Act), subsections (1) and (4);

(p) the M16 Water Industry Act 1991—

(i) in section 4 (environmental duties with respect to sites of special interest), subsections (1) and (4),

(ii) in section 5 (codes of practice with respect to environmental and recreational duties), subsection (4)(b), and

(iii) in section 156 (restrictions on disposals of land), subsection (4)(c)(i);

(q) the M17 Land Drainage Act 1991—

(i) in section 61C (duties with respect to sites of special scientific interest), subsections (1) and (4), and

(ii) in section 61E (codes of practice), subsection (4)(b);

(r) the M18 Transport and Works Act 1992: in section 6 (applications for orders relating to railways, tramways, inland waterways, etc.), subsection (7)(e);

(s) the M19 Protection of Badgers Act 1992: in section 10 (licences to do otherwise prohibited acts relating to badgers), subsection (4)(a);

(t) the M20 Environment Act 1995—

(i) in section 8 (environmental duties with respect to sites of special interest), subsections (1) and (4),

(ii) in section 9 (codes of practice with respect to environmental and recreational duties), subsection (3)(b),

(iii) in section 66 (national park management plans), subsection (7)(a), and

(iv) in section 99 (consultation required before making or modifying certain subordinate legislation for England), subsection (2)(c);

(u) the M21 Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996—

(i) in Schedule 6 (planning conditions), paragraph 27(4), and

(ii) in Schedule 14 (overhead lines: consent), paragraph 7(4); and

(v) the M22 Greater London Authority Act 1999: in section 352 (the Mayor’s biodiversity action plan), subsection (3)(a).

Marginal Citations

M1 1949 c.97.

M2 1966 c. 38.

M3 1968 c. 41.

M4 1970 c. 30.

M5 1980 c. 27.

M6 1980 c. 66.

M7 1981 c. 22.

M8 1981 c. 69.

M9 1984 c. 51.

M10 1986 c. 49.

M11 1987 c. 53.

M12 1988 c. 4.

M13 1989 c. 29.

M14 1990 c. 43.

M15 1991 c. 54.

M16 1991 c. 56.

M17 1991 c. 59.

M18 1992 c. 42.

M19 1992 c. 51.

M20 1995 c. 25.

M21 1996 c. 61.

M22 1999 c. 29.