Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 2054

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Repeal of Offensive Trades or Businesses Provisions Order 1995

Made

31st July 1995

Laid before Parliament

11th August 1995

Coming into force

1st September 1995

The Secretary of State, considering it expedient, having regard to the operation of Part I and Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1) in relation to offensive trades or businesses, in exercise of his poers under section 84(4) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Repeal of Offensive Trades or Businesses Provisions Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st September 1995.

Repeal of Offensive Trades or Businesses Provisions

2.  Sections 107 and 108 of the Public Health Act 1936(2) (offensive trades or businesses) are hereby repealed.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

James Clappison

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

31st July 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order repeals sections 107 and 108 of the Public Health Act 1936, which made provisions as to the establishment and carrying on of offensive trades opr businesses carried on within local authorities' districts. These activities are now regulated under Part I and Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

(2)

1936 c. 49. Section 107 was amended by the Local Government Act 1972, section 180.