Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 207

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes Order 2000

Made

2nd February 2000

Laid before Parliament

9th February 2000

Coming into force

1st March 2000

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st March 2000.

Variation of section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990

2.  In section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(2) (purposes for which financial assistance may be given) for paragraph (bb) there shall be substituted—

(bb)the programme known as Radon Measurement and Support for Remedial Works Campaigns in England;.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Chris Mullin

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

2nd February 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 so as to enable the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, to give financial assistance to, or for the purposes of, the programme known as Radon Management and Support for Remedial Works Campaigns in England.