The Contaminated Land (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 663

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENGLAND

The Contaminated Land (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Made

2nd March 2001

Laid before Parliament

9th March 2001

Coming into force

1st April 2001

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 78L(4) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Contaminated Land (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

(2) These Regulations extend to England only.

Appeals to a magistrates' court

2.  In regulation 8(6) of the Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2000(2) for the words “justices' clerk” there shall be substituted the words “justices' chief executive”.

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

Michael Meacher

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

2nd March 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which extend to England only, amend the Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2000 to transfer the administrative functions of justices' clerks under them to justices' chief executives.

Similar transfers are made by section 90 of and Schedule 13 to the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).

(1)

1990 c. 43. Sections 78A to 78YC were inserted by section 57 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25). See the definition of “prescribed” in section 78A(9). The Secretary of State can exercise the powers under these sections only in relation to England; see article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and section 53 of the Scotland Act 1988 (c. 46).

(2)

S.I. 2000/227, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.