1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010.
(2) Except as provided by paragraphs (3) and (4), these Regulations come into force on 1st April 2010.
(3) In regulation 6 (relevant authorities in relation to marine areas and European marine sites), paragraph (i) (inshore fisheries and conservation authority) comes into force immediately after section 153 of the Marine Act(1) (management of inshore fisheries) comes into force.
(4) The following provisions come into force immediately after section 134 of the Marine Act (orders for protection of marine conservation zones in Wales) comes into force (so far as not already brought into force)—
(a)paragraph (2) of regulation 38 (European marine sites: byelaws and orders), and paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) of that regulation in so far as they relate to paragraph (2); and
(b)paragraph (3) of regulation 133 (revocations), in so far as that paragraph relates to the revocation, as regards Wales, of—
(i)the entry “sections 36 and 37 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (marine nature reserves),” in paragraph (3) of regulation 3 (implementation of Directive) of the 1994 Regulations(2), and
(ii)regulation 36 (byelaws for protection of European marine site) of the 1994 Regulations.