The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (England) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 714

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENGLAND

The Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (England) Order 2003

Made

13th March 2003

Laid before Parliament

17th March 2003

Coming into force

7th April 2003

The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 153(4) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (England) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 7th April 2003.

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), after paragraph (qq)(3) there shall be inserted—

“(rr) the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, in respect of its activities in England in so far as they relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment.”

Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State

Tony McNulty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

13th March 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies section 153(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. It enables the Secretary of State (with the consent of the Treasury) to give financial assistance to, or for the purposes of, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, in respect of its activities in England in so far as they relate to the protection, improvement or better understanding of the environment.

(1)

1990 c. 43; the relevant functions of the Secretary of State in so far as they relate to Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). In relation to Wales, the Secretary of State has concurrent powers with the National Assembly for Wales (see article 2 of, and the entry relating to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672)).

(2)

Varied by S.I. 1991/146, 682 and 1179, 1992/654, 1993/1062 and 1518, 1995/150, 554, 1085 and 3099, 1996/505 and 1431, 1997/651, 1998/538, 1001 and 3234, 2000/207 and 2211, 2002/1686 and 2021, and by S.S.I. 2000/430 and 2002/83.

(3)

Inserted by S.I. 2002/2021.